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While we have come to greatly admire the crisp sobriety of the Look Online Blog (And, quite frankly, who else would dare report on Fashion industry shows with anything approaching sobriety), we cannot fail to note with deep regret today that one Ernest Schmatolla (Averted Gaze), the publisher, pitches what can only be properly construed as such the perfect little "bitch fit." To wit:
"Even the supermodels no longer demand respect and most of them are now looked at as so many fashion dinosaurs. How can they compare to the likes of a Sarah Jessica Parker a grade B actress who, playing a slut on 'Sex and the City ', can become a fashion icon with three covers of Vogue to her credit."
(A considerable pause) First off: We do not use the word "slut" in our vocabulary (The Corsair drains a glass of a mature Chateau Lafite Rothschild). We prefer the term ... "charitable." Saucy Schmatolla continues, his volume increasing, in a cracked voice:
"And what about the likes of Paris Hilton? It is sad that even Vanity Fair must struggle to remain 'relevant' by putting Hilton on the cover of their current issue. What PT Barnum said a hundred years ago is still true, 'you can never underestimate the bad taste of the public' and that goes doubly true to those editors who pander to that taste. Fashion is not pure or noble or even honest. It is a business true and like any business must answer to the bottom line. However, fashion is also a creative enterprise. But when you go to a show, you want to see a designer's vision cut in cloth and presented as he wants it to appear, and not how he or a stylist thinks the media would like it . There is a difference!"
And (Breaks Schmatolla off a segment of Vicodin) -- there's a downer; capice?:
"When the lights go down, and the music begins, and the models first appear, there is still the expectation that something beautiful might come down that runway and take our collective breaths away. Take that away and the magic is gone."
Schmatolla's unexpurgated dialectic here.
1 comment:
Earnest is, doubtless, just never afraid to be himself. Would you want an Editor to behave otherwise, couching the truth behind a bunch of self-serving industry platitudes? I applaud his statements here and feel they are clearly merited, especilly now, when the MSM is loosing confidence daily.
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