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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: December 2017

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Have a cracking 2018

CoolBy Graham McAleerDecember 31, 2017Leave a comment

Wishing all readers a super New Year.   For some good New Year’s reading look up an excellent article on one of the high points of fashion which I discuss in V&R Chapters 4 and 5.  The link itself won’t transfer but pop over to the lovely website Quill & Pad and look up their…

Happy Christmas to all readers!

News!By Graham McAleerDecember 23, 2017Leave a comment

In the spirit of Christmas and V&R:   “The Three Kings came to Bethlehem bringing gold and frankincense and myrrh. If they had only brought Truth and Purity and Love there would have been no Christian art and no Christian Civilization.” ~~~ G. K. Chesterton

Are high heels done? Jouissance says “No!”

TheoryBy Graham McAleerDecember 21, 2017Leave a comment

This is the question posed here in a NYT article but Jacques Lacan is sure the answer is “no.”   The piece offers useful background on the origins of high heels and the fact that men and kings used to wear them.  Like so much fashion, they began with the calvary. The thesis of the…

Simply had to post…

CoolBy Graham McAleerDecember 19, 2017Leave a comment

I’ve nothing to add but it’s nice to know the Scots have named so obscure a place.  On the map, Graham Land is the bit of Antartica closest to South America.  

Cucinelli’s travel reading

CoolBy Graham McAleerDecember 17, 2017Leave a comment

An impressive list of books to take on a business trip: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/designer-brunello-cucinelli-on-finding-cashmere-and-inspiration-in-mongolia

Fun amateur tweed design competition

News!By Graham McAleerDecember 16, 2017Leave a comment

I’ll certainly give it a go: https://www.huntsmansavilerow.com/tweed/

Life: alienation or pantomime? Is Lacan or Scheler right?

TheoryBy Graham McAleerDecember 12, 2017Leave a comment

Chapter 5 is the heart of V&R and makes the claim that Scheler’s idea of the estate is the most moral model for business.  Examples there and in the blog show that a number of fashion houses are good approximations to the estate.  Here, I want to contrast Scheler’s 1913 The Nature of Sympathy with…

Lacan’s critique of Bentham’s utilitarianism

TheoryBy Graham McAleerDecember 9, 2017Leave a comment

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was involved in the founding of my undergraduate institution, the “Godless College,” University College London.  Nonetheless, I have never been taken with his ethical thought.   Benthamism or utilitarianism is, with Kantianism, one of the two most dominant ethical theories taught at colleges in the Anglosphere.  I’m not sure it has the…

Jacques Lacan: psycho-analysis and fashion

TheoryBy Graham McAleerDecember 2, 2017Leave a comment

*This is the first in what I hope will be a series of thoughts about Lacan and clothes.  Since the summer, my friend and sometime blogger here, Chris Wojtulewicz have been reading Lacan together.  Each week via FaceTime we have done a seminar on Lacan’s Seminar 7: very meta. Lacan is a genius and has…

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