Now competitors can come from within, riding a new aesthetic or ethos into fashion. Monarchs also once had the advantage of setting the rules of engagement and controlling the field of battle. This too is more difficult. Historians and fashion designers do have something in common. Both find the most fundamental rules of discourse under review.
Artists are perhaps more like poets.
They don t much care if order is not forthcoming. This makes their disorder easier but not less plentiful. The world of art was now a collection of differences, each artist a kind of tradition unto his or her own. Popular music is awash in plenitude. It has always had an exuberant disregard for generic conventions.