Criticism of a Criticism

2010-02-23T11:44:00.000-08:00

I recently posted a criticism regarding a newspaper writer's article regarding Fashion Week.

Here's a copy of the text below:

Recently, I read a newspaper article regarding this year’s Fashion Week.

I didn’t really take issue with her caterwauling regarding the “good ol’ days”, as we expect to hear from the elderly. Nor did I take issue with the antiquated opinions regarding fashion, how the writer found it hard to adapt to the evolution of what is celebrity, nor the fact that anything that wasn’t outrageously expensive was simply too jejune for her.

Rather, I took issue with the group of people that she calls “the Dregs”, those people who need to stand and wait for a seat at a fashion show. She regards them as losers, but in her dotage, she has overlooked exactly who these people are. “The Dregs”, as she calls them, consist of fashion students, budding stylists, and young, new designers that don’t happen to have the money nor the fame to be blessed with a designated seat. These are the people that have a true and real passion for fashion. These are the people who are driving the industry. These are the people that might one day become people whom she will need to kowtow to.

Let us not forget that Coco Chanel once tried to become a cabaret singer (it didn’t work out), worked in a tailoring shop, and the first store that she opened failed. Tom Ford dropped out of NYU and originally concentrated on acting in television commercials. And Thom Brown started off as a salesman in a Giorgio Armani showroom. These are the people that, in their early beginnings, she would have called “the Dregs”.

As she blithely dismisses “the Dregs”, she also dismisses the actual future of fashion. I wonder where, exactly, she thinks designers and stylists come from?

Chanel Samurai Armor?

2010-02-17T11:10:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen anything like this at Fashion Week in New York, although I really wish that I did!

Chanel Samurai Armor

That would have been pretty epic!

New Blog

2010-02-16T07:57:00.001-08:00

Starting up a new blog to compliment the Chic Unique New York blog. This one's geared more towards my personal work than Chic Unique, but is still somewhat related. :-)

Fashion Week's been absolutely crazy and has been a TON of work. But it's also been a lot of fun to see what's being put on the runway. And there definitely seems to be a lot that's military inspired this year for men.

Anyway, will definitely be posting more as things come in!

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Criticism of a Criticism

Chanel Samurai Armor?

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