So I pick up my daily Guardian for the bus journey, rip into the G2 supplement first (doesn't everyone?) and was confronted with this article that I could feel would make me irrate before I even started scan-reading the text. "Why I Hate Fashion" by Tanya Gold, whose writing I actually normally get a few chuckles out of. There are all the hazardous assumptions that a lot of mainstream media perpetuate about fashion as this 'evil' entity that I didn't think someone like Gold would well... continue to perpetuate.
I'm not going to be long-winded about it because after all it is a Friday and I'm not in the right state of mind to form a rebuttal with any ounce of coherence... but as far as I can surmise... Gold has distilled her hatred of fashion because of the following...
... Carrie Bradshaw's love of shoes...
... a girl falling over in her heels in between two trains and dying...
... a model having a horrendous time in the industry...
... her hollow feelings of buying something expensive and designer...
Are we not missing a few things here? Gold's hatred of fashion is based on high heels, mal-treated models and gross consumption, when fashion and style (I'm lumping the two together because I'm thinking Gold hasn't made a distinction between the two...) is SO much more than that...
Even her choice of a black button down top with a bit of frilly detail down it in this ostensibly ANTI-fashion photo of her (you can see it better in the paper) somewhat contradicts her repugnance of 'fashion'...
Funnier that some comments are all commending Gold on 'hitting the nail on the head' with her revealing some supposedly clandestine truth about fashion being an evil consumer machine. This we all know. But me thinks most of us here knowingly have our own love/hate relationship with this machine and can also choose to consume fashion in it, around it or on the periphery of it.
