Fashion: Turn to the Left!

Jesse Walker | August 15, 2008

Former reason editor and current Atlantic columnist Virginia Postrel has started a new blog. Deep Glamour, written with Kate Coe, looks like it'll be an interesting mix of fashion, art, cultural history, and perhaps a bit of politics. From the first post:

Just as different eras produce different forms of humor, what audiences find glamorous changes over time. The decline of one kind of glamour, whether of nineteenth-century Parisian grandes dames or of the mid-century Rat Pack, often presages the rise of another kind, representing different values or aspirations: the glamour of bohemian cafés or of rock stars. A geisha's glamour meant one thing in the nineteenth century, when geisha were chic style setters, and another after the 1920s, when they became custodians of tradition. The themes that unify the many forms of glamour are not formal elements but imaginative qualities--grace, mystery, and the promise of escape and transformation.

Virginia's other blog, The Dynamist, is still active as well. If you're wondering what any of this glamour stuff has to with politics, you might start with this recent post there about the election.

Comments

First Little Pig|8.15.08 @ 12:38PM|#

Sorry, the Rat Pack style is still glamorous.

Episiarch|8.15.08 @ 12:57PM|#

Sorry, the Rat Pack style is still glamorous.

That's because it's not really a style. It's an attitude. Except for Lawford. He was something of a douche.

|8.15.08 @ 1:00PM|#

Is that Holly Hunter telling Nick Coppola to turn to the left?

Alan Vanneman|8.15.08 @ 1:19PM|#

OK, it looks like legal absinthe has claimed its first victim. I must say, it isn't pretty.

ed|8.15.08 @ 1:32PM|#

Except for Lawford. He was something of a douche

Whadayamean? He was JFK's pimp. The Pimp of Camelot! That's way glamorous!

|8.15.08 @ 1:38PM|#

Five posts and not one "Reason really sucks since Postrel left" post. Reasonites are getting soft.

|8.15.08 @ 1:43PM|#

Wow, it's the new George magazine.

|8.15.08 @ 1:56PM|#

Virginia Postrel is the ultimate Cosmotarian. She was the one who defined a libertarian as as a "tolerant cosmopolitan".

ed|8.15.08 @ 1:57PM|#

I thought a libertarian was a failed objectivist.

|8.15.08 @ 2:01PM|#

Some of us are just manic-depressive Constitutionalists.

|8.15.08 @ 2:12PM|#

"I thought a libertarian was a failed objectivist"

Libertarian is an objectivist who wants to get laid.

ed|8.15.08 @ 2:20PM|#

OK, it looks like legal absinthe has claimed its first victim

If this is what happens when you donate a kidney, I'm keeping both of mine.

Antiglobalist|8.15.08 @ 2:20PM|#

Cosmopolitanism is hipsterism under a trendier name.

|8.15.08 @ 2:41PM|#

For a blog called "Deep Glamour"... well, I can't really come up with something. But when I do, *WHAM*. I'm going to leave that as a comment somewhere.

|8.15.08 @ 3:02PM|#

A libertarian is an objectivist who has learned to think for herself.

ed|8.15.08 @ 3:03PM|#

No, that's a librarian.

Gene Berkman|8.15.08 @ 5:41PM|#

Guys, Reason has really improved since Virginia Postrel left. You don't really have to keep reminding us of the improvement by linking to VP's blogs.

|8.18.08 @ 11:50AM|#

Guys, Reason has really improved since Virginia Postrel left.

The (thankfully) rare "reverse drink." I can remember only one other.

|8.18.08 @ 2:02PM|#

Libertarian is an objectivist who wants to get laid.

So, the joke is that objectivists come up with counterproductive strategies?