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Arthur Eddington's My Son, The Prince Of Fashion

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The most beautiful theory, The Economist
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He describes the various shows they witnessed, brilliantly contrasting his clueless apathy with his son’s pure and complete entrancement with the clothes, the shows, and the process. He also describes his son’s unique love for fashion and his ability to dress impeccably, which he does due to his love for clothes and despite any teasing and mocking he encounters because of his style. Abe has an impressive and commendable ability to stand out and withstand the scrutiny and criticism that accompanies such distinction (Chabon even comments that Abe designs his clothes, the “outside of his body,” to “invite scrutiny”). Ironically, though, Chabon expresses the most important message of the article through the one fashion show to which he did not accompany his son. It was the show his son loved the most, precisely because Chabon, his “minder” (which he purposefully calls himself throughout the article), was not there. It was at the Paris Fashion show, and this one show in particular, that Abe found his “people;” he found those like him, who similarly love everything about fashion. And it was there he finally cured the intense “solitude of his passion” that he suffered at home, amid friends and family that did not share, or really understand, his passion. In Chabon’s words “you are born into a family and those are your people,”

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