no I really enjoyed it and I have shared it on my "socials"
I really enjoy fashion and live aspirationally too
Are you just quoting Craner and relying on none of us having read the essay?
I mean the other thing about fashion is that when I look through eg Dazed & Confused's menswear spreads I don't ever actually imagine I'll buy a £500 t-shirt and wear it into a muddy field with nothing else but a pair of Doc Marten's like in the photoshoot. But I might keep it in my mind that longer length sleeves look good and when they finally arrive in Zara I'll buy the option with them. It's all fantasy, it's not meant to be real, and I think once you accept that - that even the rich and privileged don't really buy and wear this stuff the way it looks in publications - it's easy to not see the industry as exploitative and tasteless but as decadent entertainment, like a Marvel film loaded with special effects.
I mean the other thing about fashion is that when I look through eg Dazed & Confused's menswear spreads I don't ever actually imagine I'll buy a £500 t-shirt and wear it into a muddy field with nothing else but a pair of Doc Marten's like in the photoshoot. But I might keep it in my mind that longer length sleeves look good and when they finally arrive in Zara I'll buy the option with them. It's all fantasy, it's not meant to be real, and I think once you accept that - that even the rich and privileged don't really buy and wear this stuff the way it looks in publications - it's easy to not see the industry as exploitative and tasteless but as decadent entertainment, like a Marvel film loaded with special effects.
He was wearing tartan trousers. Is that fashionable? I haven't been keeping up.
I don't think fashion is completely nihilistic. Like every industry it has good and bad elements but I don't think it's fair to say that fashion imagery hasn't or can't make positive impacts on it's audience.