As readers know, this website is a huge fan of Warhol and thinks that pop art raises all manner of extremely interesting questions about the relationship between veneration and refinement, vanity and the sacred. Each year Loyola hosts a lecture these questions so how super it is to learn that the Vatican will host a…
The new Churchill film tracks the hesitancy inside the British establishment on whether to wage all out war with Hitler or to cede to a pact with him. The film is certainly correct that many wished to make a deal with Hitler. Churchill was one of the few who saw the threat clearly. V&R…
A recent post addressed the Barcadi bat and the challenge it offers to Smith’s ethics (http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/bacardi-bat-adam-smith-stumped/). The puzzle: How can a brand succeed when the logo is an animal that provokes fear (in most Westeners certainly, and likely many others, too)? Smith will be much happier learning that the military have an interest in…
In the spirit of Christmas and V&R: “The Three Kings came to Bethlehem bringing gold and frankincense and myrrh. If they had only brought Truth and Purity and Love there would have been no Christian art and no Christian Civilization.” ~~~ G. K. Chesterton
I’ll certainly give it a go: https://www.huntsmansavilerow.com/tweed/
H&M are not an especially moral company and do not make the list of The Best Dressed Award that I have going. They have a new video ad that reaches back to Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. The video is a re-enactment of Charles driving with Sebastien to Brideshead for the first time. I am a…
This is some news: researchers at Cambridge have printed electrical circuits directly onto sustainable fabric (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/fully-integrated-circuits-printed-directly-onto-fabric). If we don’t literally become cyborgs, looks like we’ll be wearing fabrics soon that’ll make us rather like cyborgs on the outside. Clothes linked directly to the internet? Your Pinterest moving across your jumper? David Hume is thrilled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXGDFw8qDQ
On Monday, Loyola hosts the 2nd Andy Warhol Lecture. I will post a summary of the argument here next week. Meanwhile, here is well-known English hair stylist, Andrew Dale, talking about his craft and early years being trained at Vidal Sassoon, in the heady days of British New Wave music. Super that Warhol did ads…
So very Max Scheler: https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/video/les-petites-mains?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=5b93d65fac-the-trouble-with-topshop-nike-launches-flyleather-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d2191372b3-5b93d65fac-417297929 A lovely video about the seamstresses who make Dior haute couture.