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Originally Posted by PoppyAzura
I think you under estimate the national and global reach of the NYTimes. Pieces of NYTimes are picked up by smaller newspapers/Times Publications throughout the US and abroad. A person living in a small town is more like to read a Times piece than to have a subscription of Vogue IMO.
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more people read glamour magazine than does american vogue, but that doesn't reduce its influence.
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Horyn (and Menkes) is a respected journalist. It's not her job to set fashion but to objectively report on what designers (and later retailers) will be presenting to the consumers. Fashion is a business and if I were a designer I would consider objective criticism and (maybe) use it to better inform my design process....
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if she did that, most would probably respect her. she goes beyond that and that's the argument here.
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Horyn doesn't come from a place of pure hate but always from a prism a "real woman/man" (aka the consumer) versus VP's the gothic hyper sex kitten or US Vogue's social grande dame.
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let's take her latest...do you really think the "real woman/man" wears junya watanabe and commes des garcons? seriously? the new york times and cathy horyn have agendas just like everyone else.
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Honestly, I think we give Anna and Carine too much credit and too much power. I hope we all remember that fashion design is not limited to the 5 designers they highlight issue after issue. They give us a limited (though aspirational) view of "fashion." Fashion and individual expression through dress is so much more than that.
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honestly, anna wintour wields a lot more power than you give her credit for. she championed john galliano LONG before he got appointed by dior -- we know the BILLIONS of sales they've had since his appointment. i hold carine roitfeld partially responsible for balmainia. seriously, would a lot of us know about that brand without her and her counterparts touting that look? name the last time the new york times created something from nothing? that's their power.