The brief announcement of Prince Charles’s initiative in support of sheep farming http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/the-prince-of-wales/initiatives/campaign-wool includes an interesting video at the end about the flame properties of wool. I’ll turn to this once I have spoken more about Smith’s theory of beauty and plus size fashion.
An alternative title to this post could be: Why Tim Gunn is right and the fashion designers wrong. The next few posts will compare and contrast the theories of beauty by the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, and Adam Smith. More about them in a moment. In an extremely interesting article…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/08/tim-gunn-designers-refuse-to-make-clothes-to-fit-american-women-its-a-disgrace/?utm_term=.1fb8b77ea63d
This ad appeared in the Wall Street Journal Magazine, the weekend of September 11, 2016. It is grist for Agamben’s mill, of course. See my account of his argument in Chapter 8 and how I would answer him.
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/09/07/burke-and-burkinis/
The website http://www.libertylawsite.org/ will publish my take on the business ethics of the burkini early next week. I will post the link here once it is up. Meanwhile, here is a useful link to a brief article on religion and clothes from The Economist. http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2016/08/faith-and-apparel
Here are a couple of links: If you liked the CST reflection in my monograph, you might want to see what we are doing with CST at Loyola: http://www.loyola.edu/department/catholic-social-thought If you generally liked the monograph and want to see what else I’m writing about, you might want to visit below and look…
Likely people want different things from a text devoted to the ethics of the fashion industry. Here’s a handy guide of where to find what might interest you most. Those interested in concrete business organization that meets standards of justice will want to jump to chapters 3, 4, and 5. Those interested in the cultural…
Thank you for visiting Veneration & Refinement. I hope you enjoy your visit. What have you stumbled across? A book published as a website. The website is actually a monograph, the sort of text that would usually be published as a physical book. It is a philosophical inquiry into the moral and aesthetic…