Student Life at Antwerp School of Fashion

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This is an extremely interesting article and a bit different from what one typically finds in the fashion pages (https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/bof-exclusive/antwerp-academy-student-suicide-calls-teaching-methods-into-question?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=45e5bef93e-antwerp-academy-student-suicide-calls-teaching-met&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d2191372b3-45e5bef93e-417297929).   It’s prompted by the sad case of a suicide at the highly prestigious fashion school in Antwerp, Belgium.  What is says about Belgian university culture is spot on, as I know from my years…

Fashion is not about hedonism

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Here is a good read: https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-philosophy-hold-clothes-in-such-low-regard.  It’s nice to see philosophical accounts of fashion and this one goes some way to correcting — as does V&R! — the oft-repeated claim that fashion and commerce is about hedonism (https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2018/04/why-anti-liberalism-fails/).   Both articles are well worth reading but the first stands as an important corrective of the second.…