Riviera Style at the Fashion and Textile Museum explores 100 years of bathing fashions from the English seaside to the Côte d’Azur and California.
Archives for May 2015
Rayne: Shoes for Stars – Fashion and Textile Museum
The Fashion and Textile Museum presents Rayne: Shoes for Stars. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a fully illustrated book of the same name by fashion historian Michael Pick. Founded by Henry and Mary Rayne in London in 1885 as theatrical costumiers, Rayne’s early clients included dancers such as Anna Pavlova and Nijinsky as […]
Cultural Relativism: a Challenge for Ethical Philosophy
How can we agree when different nations and groups view the world from vastly different models? Human cultures vary in their models as much as a birds of prey are different from fleeing wildebeest.