A media darling, Sophia Amoruso, developed her $85 million business Nasty Gal from originally selling vintage finds on eBay. The brand expanded quickly and also failed utterly. The spectacular rise and fall of the fashion company has become something of a case study in the business world. The details of what went wrong are…
The corset is making a comeback. Some worry there are political implications, that corsets objectify by pushing the female body to “perverse proportions” (https://www.wsj.com/articles/waist-management-test-driving-springs-corset-trend-1488471042). How to assess the morality of “perverse proportions”? In a previous post, I noted Adam Smith’s aesthetic objections to the corset (http://www.ethicsoffashion.com/adam-smith-on-corsets/). Recalling that for Smith beauty and morality…