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Veneration & Refinement: The Ethics of Fashion
Veneration & Refinement: The Ethics of Fashion
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    • Abbreviations
  • Blog
  • Table of Contents
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1: Fashion and Privilege: David Hume and Luxury Fashion
    • Chapter 2: Fashion and Poverty: The Whig-Tory Debate
    • Chapter 3: Fashion and Justice: Benedict XVI and Feel Good Fashion
    • Chapter 4: Fashion and Beauty: Adam Smith and Celebrity Fashion
    • Chapter 5: Fashion and Vanity: Max Scheler and Craft Fashion
    • Chapter 6: Fashion and Civilisation: Johan Huizinga and Fantasy Fashion
    • Chapter 7: Fashion and Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and Fast Fashion
    • Chapter 8: Fashion and Power: Agamben and Pryzwara on the Vestments of Power
    • Concluding Remarks
  • Home
    • Abbreviations
  • Blog
  • Table of Contents
    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1: Fashion and Privilege: David Hume and Luxury Fashion
    • Chapter 2: Fashion and Poverty: The Whig-Tory Debate
    • Chapter 3: Fashion and Justice: Benedict XVI and Feel Good Fashion
    • Chapter 4: Fashion and Beauty: Adam Smith and Celebrity Fashion
    • Chapter 5: Fashion and Vanity: Max Scheler and Craft Fashion
    • Chapter 6: Fashion and Civilisation: Johan Huizinga and Fantasy Fashion
    • Chapter 7: Fashion and Nobility: Aurel Kolnai and Fast Fashion
    • Chapter 8: Fashion and Power: Agamben and Pryzwara on the Vestments of Power
    • Concluding Remarks

Monthly Archives: September 2016

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Vanity and civilisation

TheoryBy Graham McAleerSeptember 28, 2016Leave a comment

I will be posting two new reflections very shortly.  I’m off to lecture in England tomorrow and will have time to pull together a couple of ideas sitting on the aeroplane. This link will take you to a post I did over at the Law & Liberty website a year ago and is the thrust…

A comment on Prince Charles’s campaign for wool — soon

Business plansBy Graham McAleerSeptember 18, 2016Leave a comment

The brief announcement of Prince Charles’s initiative in support of sheep farming http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/the-prince-of-wales/initiatives/campaign-wool includes an interesting video at the end about the flame properties of wool. I’ll turn to this once I have spoken more about Smith’s theory of beauty and plus size fashion.  

Why do women buy Kate Middleton’s nose?

TheoryBy Graham McAleerSeptember 15, 2016Leave a comment

An alternative title to this post could be: Why Tim Gunn is right and the fashion designers wrong.   The next few posts will compare and contrast the theories of beauty by the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, and Adam Smith. More about them in a moment.   In an extremely interesting article…

I’ll post about Tim Gunn on plus-size fashion soon

UncategorizedBy Graham McAleerSeptember 11, 2016Leave a comment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/08/tim-gunn-designers-refuse-to-make-clothes-to-fit-american-women-its-a-disgrace/?utm_term=.1fb8b77ea63d

Cucinelli: so great

UncategorizedBy Graham McAleerSeptember 11, 2016Leave a comment

This ad appeared in the Wall Street Journal Magazine, the weekend of September 11, 2016. It is grist for Agamben’s mill, of course. See my account of his argument in Chapter 8 and how I would answer him.

My take on the business ethics of the burkini

Business plansBy Graham McAleerSeptember 7, 2016Leave a comment

http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/09/07/burke-and-burkinis/    

My take on the burkini — soon

News!By Graham McAleerSeptember 2, 2016Leave a comment

The website http://www.libertylawsite.org/ will publish my take on the business ethics of the burkini early next week.  I will post the link here once it is up. Meanwhile, here is a useful link to a brief article on religion and clothes from The Economist.  http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2016/08/faith-and-apparel      

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