Just because…
Andy looks so cool in his Rolls Royce. http://media.nbclosangeles.com/images/653*367/Revolverwarholshow1.jpg
Andy Warhol x Plato
Yesterday Loyola University Maryland hosted the Annual Andy Warhol Lecture sponsored by the Committee on Catholic Social Thought. I will give a brief summary. The theme was music and began with the observation that even young toddlers dance on hearing music (for those familiar with this blog know that Huizinga bells were going off…
Starbucks x Max Scheler
http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-reserve-roastery-chicago-2017-4/#when-you-walk-inside-its-clear-this-isnt-the-average-starbucks-freshly-roasted-beans-sit-in-gleaming-containers-ready-to-be-ground-and-brewed-2 See V&R Chapter 5 for details of Scheler’s ethos of craft. This new Starbucks is not a perfect version of Scheler’s estate but it is at least a distant approximation.
Oscar de la Renta: Returning to Max Scheler
An interesting phenomenon is afoot in major fashion houses: in football parlance, promotion from the boot room. Football, like fashion, has been fascinated for a good while now by celebrity managers: global superstars as famous as their leading players and typically richer in psychological heft and oddities. It used to be that managers were…
Annual Andy Warhol Lecture
Each year, Loyola’s Committee on Catholic Social Thought hosts a lecture on morals and art and does so under the inspiration of Andy Warhol. Warhol was a daily communicant and was raised in the Byzantine Catholic rite. This year Loyola University Maryland hosts Michael Krom, himself of the Byzantine rite. Professor Krom is a member…
BOF: Unfair to Zara!
I am a fan of BOF: the news aggregator for fashion events and business. They help my work on this blog/book immensely. It is disappointing to read today the title of an article: “Your Obsession with Zara is Actually Harming the Planet.” The article BOF is linking to is by Livia Firth and does not…
Scheler and Huizinga rediscovered in a shop near you
Online shopping is all the rage and physical shops are wondering how to cope. Adidas and Nike are turning to Huizinga (V&R Chapter 6) and building play spaces into their shops (https://qz.com/956745/retail-experiments-from-farfetch-nike-and-amazon-offer-visions-of-the-store-of-the-future/). The marvel is that they didn’t think to do this all along. Coach and Burberry are turning to Scheler (V&R Chapter 5)…
Dress like Charles: you can’t go wrong
Below is a very interesting article about changes and variations in the British male body and how suit companies are responding. The article starts out noting how much taller and bulkier the average Briton is today from fifty years ago. This is obvious: even if you don’t think you are especially bulky, just try getting…
Veils and crosses
Over the coming weeks I want to do a few posts on the use philosophers make of the idea of cloth in their thinking. I will do a post on Edmund Burke soon but for now I want to mark Easter by using Erich Przywara – discussed at V&R Chapter 8 – to explain a…
Benedict and just production
V&R Chapter 3 discusses Pope Benedict XVI’s use of the theory of justice found in the Catholic Social Thought tradition. There, I speak about the “feel good fashion” movement and highlight Zady’s efforts to introduce transparency in production: And Everlane is another example: A news report claims that this year has seen a…