V&R Chapter 3 discusses Pope Benedict XVI’s use of the theory of justice found in the Catholic Social Thought tradition. There, I speak about the “feel good fashion” movement and highlight Zady’s efforts to introduce transparency in production: And Everlane is another example: A news report claims that this year has seen a…
Everyone loves Idris Elba, and rightly so, but his intellectual and charismatic match in Luther is sociopath Alice Morgan, played by Ruth Wilson. Most appropriately, she drives the hyper stylish Jensen Interceptor. Worth watching is a British chap talking with Jay Leno about his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGVcJrEJW7E. Hard to believe but there is an even cooler Jensen,…
Just finishing up James Laver’s excellent book on the history of clothes. I like his writing very much and hope to make more use of it in future posts.
I have no idea of the precise numbers but I assume almost all clients of haute couture make purchases from monies disbursed from trusts lodged in tax havens. Are tax havens moral? I discuss this question in a bit of detail in an essay soon to be published over at the Law and Liberty…
Edmund Burke is one of Britain’s towering intellectual figures, a man, who, like his contemporary Adam Smith, continues to impact our moral and political order. I have spoken about Burke here: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/09/07/burke-and-burkinis/. At the heart of his thinking is the idea of inheritance, that you and I live by the grace of what he…
The Italians do this so well: heritage, business development, and just working conditions. V&R Chapter 5 shows how Brunello Cucinelli matches Scheler’s model for moral business and Bulgari are making a good stab at it, too (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/fashion/jewelry-bulgari.html).
*Special Note: This is a close to the series of recent posts on natural law prompted by a set of luncheons at Loyola University Maryland. The final luncheon was guided by Scott Roninger of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. What follows is an outline of his presentation with additions made by myself to explore fashion…
Over the last month, I have posted on natural law and how its approach to ethics can help us think about costume and body modification. St. John Paul II made a distinctive contribution to natural law thinking. I argued in Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics (2005) that this contribution brilliantly develops aspects of Aquinas’s…
This post is about the disturbing link between fashion and tax havens. Vetements has just moved to Switzerland to benefit from the gnomes of Zurich. A phrase coined back in the `60’s by a British socialist politician, George Brown (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8534936.stm), the gnomes are the bankers of Switzerland who ably and secretly shield family wealth…
Good article on the Queen’s Prime Minster Theresa May and fashion: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/theresa-may-chooses-lk-bennett-1200-jumper-vogue-shootits-important/ V&R is a fan of Scottish clothes and thinkers.