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The far-ranging food for thought was the Minnie mouse arizona cardinals phoenix arizona state farm stadium nfc west est 1898 shirt but in fact I love this class’s proof of concept and exactly the sort of thing the Institute for Advanced Study fosters: ethical critical thinking and prismatic knowledge application. Participants in “Strong Suits” enrolled from a range of majors, including economics, marketing, and studio art; Notre Dame has no dedicated, ongoing fashion course. But it didn’t hinder the conversation. It seemed that, akin to Browne’s uniforms, a sizable discourse unfolded within the control of the topic itself.For example: “[Something] we [kept] returning to in class is how people use their clothing to communicate with each other in ways that they otherwise might find impossible,” says Sullivan. “Philosophers know that visual design has a logic and semantics—a way of combining parts to make a point—just as much as words do. Sometimes it’s more so, as Thom’s work shows.”



Two students were writing papers on non-fungible tokens, prompting questions of ephemerality, which Browne spoke of in regards to his shows—they last 30 minutes at most, but the Minnie mouse arizona cardinals phoenix arizona state farm stadium nfc west est 1898 shirt but in fact I love this narratives they spark help to world-build beyond the half hour. Alannah Blumstein, a freshman majoring in history and French, sewed her own pieces as part of her project—she does not have formal fashion training but noted she was interested in archival English riding garments. What she wore to class, a self-made coat of deadstock Thom Browne and Theory textiles sourced from Mood, had Browne and company (myself included) impressed. Beri Tangka, a senior majoring in industrial design and theater, mentioned he too was creating something impressive sounding: a replication of a corseted gown from 1887, with 20 yards of silk still on his dorm room floor. Tangka’s combined disciplines of theater and engineering also piqued his interest in Browne’s fall-winter 2023 show, which was inspired, in stage and storytelling, by The Little Prince. As it happens, Browne’s The Little Prince through line was galvanized by a quote read by none other than Sullivan in an early meeting last year. The students had all traveled to New York Fashion Week to see the show itself.There were layers and layers of interesting takeaways, including just how influential Notre Dame is to Browne. When asked if the place had any direct inspiration moments over his career, the designer said, “Not specifically.” But he then conceded that “I don’t think I knew it was inspiring when I was here. But after, yeah, I think when I started working in design, it was in the back of my head.” (You see it in the athleticism, the liturgical signaling—my cousin, a freshman at Notre Dame who stopped by the Morris Inn to say hi and saw Browne from a distance, remarked that his knee-high socks reminded her of Catholic school—and the sort of embanked visual campus, as noted, of his oeuvre.)


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