“Often the arguments I hear people make about her [Kim] are tied up in their overall feelings about women — that she’s stupid, or trashy, or whatever word they prefer meaning ‘too sexually available’ — all subtext for a grown woman who does whatever she wants, who likes her body, who spends lots of…”Tagged: kardashian, Slut Shaming, Sexism
“Vogue wants us to believe that their publication is merely a reflection of cultural values, and not one of the most powerful shaping tools for those cultural values.”Tagged: Fashion, Culture, style, Clothes, Vogue
“Great fashion writing doesn’t reduce everything to what is for sale, what’s hot and not. Great fashion writing looks at clothing and the uses of clothing with the same amount of cultural reverence we give a Lars von Trier movie or the U.S. Open, as something that exists, and it asks why it exists,…”Tagged: Fashion, Culture, style, Clothes