Over the last few months in a number of posts I have questioned the assumption of so many fashion pages that there is something pernicious about nationalism. There is, of course, such a thing as venomous nationalism but there is no fundamental law that nation and malice are twins. I simply have no idea…
Well, well. How nice is this? The Met is going to take up the themes of V&R this year in its annual meditation on fashion. The topic is the place of Catholicism in the lives of so many fashion designers (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/style/met-museum-costume-institute-catholicism.html). I shall certainly go and give you some of my thoughts here.
H&M are not an especially moral company and do not make the list of The Best Dressed Award that I have going. They have a new video ad that reaches back to Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. The video is a re-enactment of Charles driving with Sebastien to Brideshead for the first time. I am a…
Readers know that the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury is a firm favourite of mine. He’d be delighted to see the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury deferring to, and feeling obligated by, the family home and its beauty: http://www.stgileshouse.com/blog/short-film-featuring-the-earl-of-shaftesbury