Fashion Explained
Fashion has always baffled me. Slate explains away a bit of the peculiarity behind fashion week and those ridiculous “you’d never see that worn anywhere” clothes that fit those ultra-thin models out with. Apparently, that’s where I’ve been going wrong. They’re not actually clothes.
Remember that fashion and clothes are not the same thing: Clothes keep you from being naked or cold, and pockets provide a place for your house keys. Fashion, when it’s good, sends the imagination racing and speaks for the wearer’s dreams in a way words can’t. …
Fashion is both democratic and exclusive. Some fashion is meant for broad audiencesNew York showman-extraordinaire Isaac Mizrahi, for example, has revived his defunct high-priced label by designing clothes for Targetand somelike the extreme styles of Nicolas Ghesquiere’s work for Balenciagais frankly not intended for uneducated eyes. The opinion of the man on the street is irrelevant when it comes to clothes designed for connoisseurs.
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