Cicciolina
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This has always been one of my favourite articles. I just love how Guy Trebay writes. What's great about fashion is that it attracts a lot of people who are 'outsiders', so to speak. However it has also attracted other types of people who view their love of shopping/dressing in a way to attract a certain type of attention/etc as a 'love of fashion'.
I suppose that fashion, unlike something like art, or even drama (if we're just talking about more cultural/artistic industries), doesn't really have an institutional body or academic centre which decrees who's 'qualified' in fashion or not, which gives rise for all these so-called experts springing out of nowhere on blogs/tv/magazines, and people who think they can rehash some frilly monstrosity on some second rate reality TV show can credit themselves as designers - or as noted, Kim Kardashian can claim to be a 'designer' because she's got a line with Bebe. It's like if Lindsay Lohan collaborated with Damien Hirst and then calls herself an artist. And you know, in times like these, I wouldn't be totally surprised if something like that happened
I suppose that fashion, unlike something like art, or even drama (if we're just talking about more cultural/artistic industries), doesn't really have an institutional body or academic centre which decrees who's 'qualified' in fashion or not, which gives rise for all these so-called experts springing out of nowhere on blogs/tv/magazines, and people who think they can rehash some frilly monstrosity on some second rate reality TV show can credit themselves as designers - or as noted, Kim Kardashian can claim to be a 'designer' because she's got a line with Bebe. It's like if Lindsay Lohan collaborated with Damien Hirst and then calls herself an artist. And you know, in times like these, I wouldn't be totally surprised if something like that happened
