V&R is a huge fan of the idea of Scheler and Caillois that the universal grammar of nature is pantomime. Schopenhauer hints at something similar though in a more conflictual register. In Tolkien’s story Beren and Luthien, Tinuviel dresses Beren up as a cat, “and she teaches him how to sit and sprawl, to…
Half way into this article is a very good video revealing the craft work at Ralph & Russo. It is the first British fashion house to be invited to showcase its haute couture in Paris in a hundred years. Beautiful stuff, no question: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/couture-in-2019-who-is-buying-it/index.html
Hanfu is a small but growing trend in Chinese fashion to reclaim the garments and look of old and eradicated aristocratic China. Burke, Scheler, and Kolnai would not be remotely surprised that young Chinese people find this alluring. Nor would David Hume. The look has much in common with what in the West might…