Xabi Alonso: great footballer with an eye for design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNGP0Ssuves
Is Under Armour a morally responsible company?
As a resident of Baltimore City, I am delighted Under Armour is thriving. Kevin Plank, the founder of the sports wear company, is justifiably proud of what he has accomplished and the good the company does. In a recent interview, he has strongly affirmed the company’s moral character (https://www.fastcompany.com/3065326/the-fast-company-innovation-festival/under-armours-founder-makes-a-passionate-defense-of-big). He points to two things:…
Is Lady Gaga a Nazi?
There are lots of names to throw at political opponents. Tsarist, totalitarian, falangist, liberal, communist, ultramontanist, but the two perennial favourites are undoubtedly, fascist and Nazi. The media is awash with Nazi accusations these days. From the Right, we hear Lady Gaga is a Nazi (http://www.dailywire.com/news/10600/why-did-lady-gaga-introduce-hillary-while-dressed-hank-berrien) and from the Left that Donald Trump is one,…
The curious case of Clearista. Soon!
My blogpost about crony capitalism and the CIA appears soon over at the Law & Liberty website. The lede is the CIA’s interest in Clearista as a tool for detection and identification. I wrote this post to further highlight what is morally objectionable about crony capitalism. I raise this issue in the Preface of V&R…
Let’s hope Pierre Bergé is wrong
This post’s title might better run: Ethically, Pierre Bergé is wrong. A brief article describes how he is building two museums to house the YSL archive (http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-gave-us-trench-coats-and-pantsuits-1476895166). YSL was something of a hoarder and unlike most designers a voluminous record of clothes, sketches, and accessories exists. So many, in fact, that the museums, one in…
My post on Tolkien and ethics
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/10/28/tolkiens-establishment/ Enjoy!
Tolkien and Moral Realism
V&R develops arguments about the morality of the fashion industry using moral realism, a tradition of moral theory that holds we have access to an objective scale of discrete value tones that shape our moral judgements. Watch this space for a soon-to-appear blog post of mine over at the Law & Liberty website on Tolkien…
Wool and Distributist Ethics
This is the post promised in my quick mention previously of the wool campaign of HRH the Prince of Wales. Chapter 3 of V&R is about “feel good fashion” and mentions briefly a couple of Belgian companies trying to ensure fair dealings both with customers and suppliers. Belgium has a long tradition of business…
Adam Smith on corsets
This post is really Part II of my recent post – Why do women buy Kate Middleton’s nose? That post took up Tim Gunn’s claim both that designers have contempt for fuller figured women and that no technical reason exists why designers cannot beautifully dress their bodies. Likely Tim Gunn’s comments reflect some of…
Vanity and civilisation
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…