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Philipp Blom is a historian, novelist and journalist.聽 He presents a cultural discussion programme on Austrian national radio and has lectured on philosophy and cultural history in Europe, the US and South America.聽 He is author of To Have and To Hold: an Intimate History of Collectors and collecting.聽 His current project is Fracture, Life and Culture in the West 1918-1939.

Yewande Omotoso is a novelist and architect.聽 Her debut novel Bom Boy won the South African First Time Author Literary Award. She has just completed a writing fellowship at the University of East Anglia in the UK.

Dr. Annamma Joy is an anthropologist and is Professor of Marketing in the Faculty of Management at the University of British Columbia with a particular interest in consumer patterns in India, China and Hong Kong.聽

Philipp Blom proposes that men, once past the age of twenty, should stay away from tight trousers.聽聽 He says that along with their stretchy kin cycling shorts, tight trousers are the distant heirs of the clothing worn by men in the 1500鈥檚, and, both now and then, an expression of male self-delusion. He argues that clothes are like opinions: you have a perfect right to wear what you want, but you have no right to look good wearing it in public.聽