7/26/11

Fashion's love for destruction is its survival mechanism

Amy Winehouse Heroin Chic: Why Fashion Loves Beautiful Wreckage - The Daily Beast: "There was something weirdly defiant, admiring, and perhaps even envious in the way the fashion industry went agog over the retro singer. Robin Givhan on how Winehouse embodied fashion’s love for destruction."

Only by the continual destroying of what is fashionable is fashion even possible. Those of us who do not observe it have no truck with it. It is largely useless like many other things that command huge markets. The recession is partly people saying they are fed up with many of the trappings of commercial culture.

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