Pope Francis drives a classic car. Nice

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).

Jacques Lacan on beauty. It ain’t pretty.

Standard fare on fashion pages: we can limit suffering (https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/video/the-gender-revolution-is-here-we-can-limit-suffering?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=4d7df3cb67-marc-jacobs-to-close-stores-beauty-s-ar-revolution&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d2191372b3-4d7df3cb67-417297929).   Lacan is less sure.  My last few posts have examined what the famed psychoanalyst has to say about clothes and my post on high heels (http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/high-heels-done-jouissance-says-no/) shows that fashion is about intensifying pleasure and suffering at the same time.  This is true about beauty,…