Averse to revolution, Burke famously argues that civilization requires the handing on of its past to the future. Italian fashion houses take this charge very seriously (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/fashion/fendi-sculpture-rome-giuseppe-penone.html?smid=tw-nytfashion&smtyp=cur&_r=0). Italians are leaders in teaching that heritage is not the enemy of the new.