Wednesday, March 02, 2011

This is Why I Hate Fashion People:


Suzy Menkes in today's New York Times:
"Friends of Mr. Galliano, who would speak only on condition of anonymity, say that they have finally persuaded the troubled designer to go immediately into rehab — and that the pace of fashion today, and particularly the rigorous structure of a corporate fashion house, broke the fragile, artistic creator.

While the vile statements seen coming from Mr. Galliano’s drunken lips on the Internet video deserved the nearly-universal condemnation they were receiving, there is pathos in the vision of one of the world’s most famous — and best paid — designers alone, clutching a glass in a bar". 
Well, BOO HOO.
Fashion people are so enamored of their own obscene irrelevancy, living in their own vulgar bubble of banality, that they can actually utter revolting statements like the one above and they don't even know or understand why this is ghastly. 
If stress were a pre-condition and a justification for bigotry, firefighters, air tower controllers, public school teachers, correctional officers, EMT personnel, nurses, among other professionals, would all be screaming racist rants every day. 
Hell, everybody who works in an office in America would belong to the KKK.
Oh, but those who work in fashion are so special and so extraordinary, so "fragile" and "artistic" and this Galliano downfall is such a tragedy... 


Suzy Menkes, give me a fucking break!
I once heard André Leon Talley say "Fashion is hope". Yeah. Tell that to someone who makes a dollar a year in some cholera infested hellhole in the world. 
Recently, Vogue (a magazine I find deeply offensive) ran a spread about the glamorous wife of the Assad tyrant in Syria
I wouldn't be surprised if some designer creates his new collection inspired on Muammar Gaddafi's muumuus. Fashion people are absurd, their world view is absurd and they need to wake up and smell their own bullshit. 

3 comments:

  1. Tova in Toronto4:59 PM

    Never a truer word was written on this subject. Looking at Galliano makes me want to puke, and what is that bizarre thing on Menkes' head. Does she connect to the mother ship through it?!! Bunch of moronic space cadets, all of them.

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  2. As someone who has studied and worked in fashion for years, I couldn't agree more. It's a hideous, hideous thing. Am on another career path now, but the memories and stories still haunt me!

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  3. Anonymous10:48 PM

    If you knew what fashion really is, you'd take your words back. Yes, there are fake people, and the fashion scene is packed with them however, those are only posers.
    Too bad they represent such a beautiful reflect of our society.
    Take a look at Lipovetsky please. Think before you speak.

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