H&M has been in the news recently and not in a good way (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/world/africa/hm-south-africa-protest.html). It has also started a new brand /Nyden for millennials. The business plan is built around the idea of tribes. The basic idea is to contract in tribe leaders and give them a free hand in creating new clothes: these…
An interesting article concisely pointing out some sharp differences about luxury spending in the two countries: https://jingdaily.com/chinese-and-indian-consumers-want-different-things-from-luxury/
The British press recently exclaimed in horror that the Queen spends 16 Pounds for a pair of socks. As mentioned in these pages frequently, cheap clothing means only one thing: unjust working conditions. In fact, the Queen wears the socks I myself favour 🙂 Corgi. The company is family owned and managed, hand-finishes,…
In a recent interview, an important French commentator on Lacan describes him as an enlightened conservative (https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1600-elisabeth-roudinesco-interviewed-on-the-30th-anniversary-of-jacques-lacan-s-death). I was happy to read this given my recent post over at Law and Liberty (http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/01/17/jacques-lacan-conservative-icon/). Trying to understand Lacan is very hard — no one disputes this! — but if I had to say in a…
Luther, starring Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson, is one of my favourite TV programmes. In a number of the opening scenes, the ever-brooding Luther is seen looking down a hole or into empty spaces. When he first visits arch criminal Alice Morgan in her flat they discuss a picture of a blackhole hanging on her…
Hi all, my latest effort to understand the significance of Lacan’s ideas is posted here: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/01/17/jacques-lacan-conservative-icon/ Hope you like.
The new Churchill film tracks the hesitancy inside the British establishment on whether to wage all out war with Hitler or to cede to a pact with him. The film is certainly correct that many wished to make a deal with Hitler. Churchill was one of the few who saw the threat clearly. V&R…
V&R likes classic cars and I learnt today that Francis drives a modest Renault 4, nearly forty years old. The article looks at the cars of heads of states. It begins with the utterly beautiful Citroens favoured by the Presidents of France but ends with Francis’s modest number (https://petrolicious.com/articles/govern-tastefully-these-are-the-most-stylish-rides-for-heads-of-states).
I was born a few miles from Morecambe in Lancashire and learnt to do hill starts in a 1965 Morris Minor on the town’s various inclines. This post is not about the seaside town of Morecambe but my favourite book, Homo Ludens. V&R Chapter 6 explains Huizinga’s argument about the centrality of play in civilization. …
A recent post addressed the Barcadi bat and the challenge it offers to Smith’s ethics (http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/bacardi-bat-adam-smith-stumped/). The puzzle: How can a brand succeed when the logo is an animal that provokes fear (in most Westeners certainly, and likely many others, too)? Smith will be much happier learning that the military have an interest in…