H&M wants to castrate you: H&M’s fashion mirror x Lacan

H&M’s latest is an interactive mirror that takes pictures of you and also offers fashion suggestions.  The business idea is to integrate being in a shop and digital sales.  Just watch the video embedded in the article for the idea: https://www.retaildive.com/news/hm-tests-voice-activated-mirrors-at-nyc-flagship/525296/.   It is an interesting example of conservatism in fashion.  Psychoanalytically, the mirror reaffirms the…

Is modesty the same as self-effacement? Tailor to the pope thinks not.

Filippo Sorcinelli is a charismatic tailor to the pope.  A Renaissance man, he is not only gifted in the art of tailoring but music, design, and perfume, too (https://www.departures.com/fashion/filippo-sorcinelli-tailor-to-the-pope).  At one point in this interview, he makes an astute point.   Benedict’s high regard for papal fashion is well-known and contrasts with Francis’s modesty.  Sorcinelli…

Przywara and Jago’s Gothic Turn?

*I am delighted that Chris Wojtulewicz is making a new post.  Chris is an English Catholic theologian interested in post-modernism.  He is the author of monographs on medieval mysticism, especially Meister Eckhart, and is currently at work on a book about French theorist Jacques Lacan and the bodily resurrection.  His previous post is here: http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/fabric-of-the-saints/ For…

Roger Caillois and the psychasthenia airline

Emirates Airlines offers an example backing up the brilliant study of French theorist, Roger Caillois, “Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia.”  His short but tremendously interesting essay is here: http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpcaillois.htm.   Caillois (1913-1978) offers a novel theory for the mimicry common throughout nature.  Instead of thinking of it in Darwinian terms, e.g. prey disguising itself like its predator…

New book update

I mentioned awhiles back that I have a new book that expands on some of the claims made in V&R.  Well, it is still doing the rounds trying to find a publisher: the process is somewhat drawn out as the manuscript has to be peer-reviewed.  While I wait for news, I thought I’d post here…