Robert Covolo, Fashion Theology. Baylor University Press, 2020, 200 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). In an article published by Transpositions in 2010, Robert Covolo (Ph. D. VU Amsterdam / Ph. D. Fuller Theological Seminary) put forth the still-relevant observation that theologians—and Christians…
If you haven’t seen “Keep Calm and Carry On” or one of its variations over the past decade, you’ve missed a truly global phenomenon.[1] The propaganda poster, designed by the British Ministry of Information (MOI) in 1939, was distributed in…
I had a friend in high school who had a bumpersticker on her car that read, “Warning: in case of rapture car will be unmanned.” I wasn’t theologically settled against a pretribution rapture at the time, and yet I found…
The irony is not lost on me: I love watching “Project Runway” – the reality competition show for aspiring fashion designers hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum – and yet my own personal fashion sense leaves much to be desired. Many…
A few months ago, Bob Covolo suggested we consider fashion to be a legitimate form of theological investigation – just as we examine our relationship to food from a theological lens, so may we examine our relationship to the clothing…
Giles Lipovetsky has observed that, “The question of fashion is not a fashionable one among intellectuals.” The dearth of anything close to a theological examination of the sartorial confirms that theologians may be the chief of all sinners. This, of…