Under Armour goes localist!

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News indeed!  And credit where credit is due.   In a number of earlier posts, I have been critical of Under Armour’s commitment to Baltimore not being matched by a commitment to manufacturing in Baltimore.  That is starting to change (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/01/30/under-armour-debuts-made-in-the-u-s-gear-and-tests-what-we-think-we-know-about-manufacturing-in-america/?utm_term=.936aae807586).   Taking a leaf from Zara’s book (http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/fast-fashion-localism/), Under Armour has linked design and…

Not as mad as it sounds

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Byborre updates traditional friar’s habit for a new generation As the article points out, the design permits local makers the world over to use customary fabrics to kit out Dominican brothers and sisters.  The designer — perhaps in jest — wonders whether the Order might get into the fashion business. It’s not so crazy: a…

Ontology of Clothes

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2016 will close with a scary gift to readers.  I am just finishing a long essay on the metaphysics of clothes.  Once finished, I will serialize it as three or four posts due to its size.  It is an academic article that will appear in a collection of essays to honour the thinking of D.…

Questions to aid reading V&R

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This semester a Loyola communication class has been working on how to advertise V&R.  The professor of the class, Dr. Paola Pascual-Ferra, thinks it an interesting marketing problem: How to advertise a book published exclusively as a website?  I meet the class next week to listen to their ideas.  I’m excited! Here are some questions…

Tolkien and Moral Realism

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V&R develops arguments about the morality of the fashion industry using moral realism, a tradition of moral theory that holds we have access to an objective scale of discrete value tones that shape our moral judgements.  Watch this space for a soon-to-appear blog post of mine over at the Law & Liberty website on Tolkien…