Fashion Philo

“Hats at the Ready!” This is how Royal Ascot introduces the official announcement of the most renowned horse racing event in the world, held each year, more or less in mid-June, at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire. The race was conceived by Queen Anne of Great Britain in 1711. Top hats became a symbol of distinction…

In The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (1936) Walter Benjamin asserts that the literary work of art is less subject to “a decay of the aura” than fine or decorative art. For, he says, “What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of…