From multi-year jobs to one-off projects, here are various pieces of work I’ve been involved in. For Plato, the forms of what is really real, and they are the form of certain things that appear to us. If that sounds complicated, consider this analogy.

Before fashion, I was a journalist. After fashion, I’ll be an icon. I’ve been a resident of the fashion world for 12 years and counting. I’ve created, critiqued, consulted, styled, forecasted, and directed. Socrates was probably a real man, but it is very hard to distinguish how much of Plato’s work is original, or reporting the beliefs of his mentor.

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For Plato, this is what the world of ordinary appearances is like. Plato then asks us to imagine that we break our bonds and escape out into the open air. We see flowers and trees and everything else clearly, as it really is.

The light we see by is no longer the obscure light of the cave but the bright, clear light of the sun. For Plato, this is what the World of the Forms is like.

We’ve already said is known as the Theory of the Forms. But what are Forms? Don’t forms have to be forms of something else? So, what exactly is this a theory of? Well, to understand this we have to understand that Plato was one of those philosophers – of whom there have been many – who thinks that the way things really are is quite different from the way things appear to be. Indeed, the distinction between appearance and reality is arguably the core Platonic distinction.

For Plato, the Forms of what is really real, and they are the Form of certain things that appear to us. If that sounds complicated, consider this analogy. Imagine you are looking at a table.It has various qualities that are particular to that table: it’s made of mahogany, it has thin legs, it is placed near to a window (and so on).

But there might be certain qualities which qualify it to be a table – in other words, certain qualities which explain how and why it is similar to other things we call tables. For Plato, the idea of a table is something we might be able to abstract from various individual tables, and that abstraction would be the Form of the table. Forms are these abstract, ideal entities. We cannot perceive them directly