Fashion is perhaps the proverbial Pandora’s box. In opening it up to scutiny, its colours, fabrics and enchantments fly out along with all their magical, seductive and even nerve jangling meanings that – try as one might – one can never contain again. That is its fascination and indeed its difficulty – its lack of …
دو گفته‌ی ادبی: نخست از ییتس، و در این گفتاورد ما همدستی فرهنگی روبه‌روییم: بارها انسان زیسته و مرده میان دو جهان جاودانه‌اش یعنی جهان نژاد و روح و ایرلند باستانی از همه چیز خبر داشت. اکنون ما نژاد را در مفهوم بسیار سنتی‌اش یعنی در معنای دودمان به کار می‌بریم: هرچند تا دهه‌ی ۱۹۳۰ …
Two literary quotations: The first is from Yeats, and here we encounter the complicity of culture: Many times man lives and dies Between his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Here we find ‘race’ being used in its most traditional sense, as lineage: although by the …