This article reports that faculty at the prestigious fashion school Central Saint Martins turn a blind eye to students who have their collections made by professionals (https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/vbjv89/how-do-you-really-measure-the-success-of-a-fashion-degree). The work load and the pressure to excel tempts students to pay others to do the handcraft part of clothes construction. Getting such help can run as…
Tolkien-inspired tattoo design by up-and-coming Baltimore artist: https://www.instagram.com/jaynejezebelle/ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Personalism is the root philosophy of CST. Applications of CST to fashion, or any other industry, will have personalism in play. My previous post on the topic (http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/catholic-personalism-and-non-ego-psychology/) argued that Karol Wojtyla’s personalism affirms ego psychology. Before we point to a turn in his…
This long, but clever, assessment of the FT’s luxury drooling magazine How to Spend It (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/19/how-to-spend-it-the-shopping-list-for-the-1-percent) includes the interesting details that not only has the British sense of luxury shifted from the origins of the magazine back in the `60’s but most of the FT’s sales are now overseas. A significant reason is because…
This video is a nice window on the bespoke craft at Louis Vuitton. The company has made the case that carries the Cup itself. The French company will certainly be hoping the Cup comes back to France. Football romantics will hope tiny Croatia can pull off an upset. The music is awful, so I’d…
A very interesting article on both the business of couture and why the young find it appealing: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/millennials-coutures-biggest-clients As always with couture, Burke approves. Somewhat, he also approves of the financial instruments that make it possible: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2017/06/30/in-trusts-we-trust/
*Over the next few weeks I will add a few posts about St. John Paul the Great’s contributions to personalism. It’s the account of ethics that underwrites CST and these posts will compliment nicely V&R Chapters 2 and 3 on Francis and Benedict respectively. In light of the discussion of Przywara on the self…
Is it weird? “This sounds really weird, but I feel like God has given me so many beauty dilemmas so I can help people,” says Ms. Kattan. Huda Kattan built a beauty brand from a blog. With 250 million dollars in sales last year, the Iraqi-American who runs the company from Dubai is…
In Lacan’s psychoanalysis a person is both rich and poor. Rich because ornamental but poor for precisely the same reason. You and I only understand ourselves through words and symbols. There is no self-definition that does not rely on these means of communication. This fact necessarily puts each of us at a distance from…
The Wall Street Journal speaks of the “unique condition” of mirror-touch synesthesia (“Lessons from Strange Brains,” Helen Thomson, Saturday June 30th). An example: “A scratch of the head, a frown, a punch on the arm — if Joel sees it, he feels it. In other words, he is hyper-empathetic.” Scheler thinks this condition is…
The England manager Gareth Southgate always sports a waistcoat on the touchline during games. His practice has led to a sales surge: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/finance/news/waistcoat-sales-up-as-gareth-southgate-sets-trend-at-world-cup/ar-AAzuai2 Prior to Southgate, the manager most associated with the waistcoat is the Spaniard and Champions League Cup winner, Rafa Benitez. The Guardian article also interestingly observes that the increase in sales…