Fashion Dystopia

"In my nightmares, the world is run by people like this, a fashion gestapo who decide who is in and out of society. Style becomes some kind of predestination, and culture is a quasi-Calvinistic realm where one must constantly display the grace you secretly hope God has granted you, which would make your grace then unquestionable. One must forever work hard to seem effortlessly natural—to me this is the ultimate in anxiety, a spiraling abyss of self-analysis and shame and pretension and phoniness and endless humiliation. To guys like Charney and his youth goon squad, this is utopia." - Rob Horning on "American Apparel" from his Marginal Utility blog at Popmatters.com

Read the whole article. Especially if, like me, you find yourself both drooling and recoiling at those entrancing American Apparel ads.

you can cleanse yourself afterwards HERE.