Cathy Horyn speaks to Louise Wilson, course director of the M.A. program at Central Saint Martins. I read it almost two weeks ago and I'm still thinking about the writeup and what Wilson said.
Excerpts:
There are immensely talented people around but I feel huge vortexes of them are sucked into this mediocre world where nobody criticizes and it’s all terribly politically correct. Even journalists are the same. You now hardly get a bad a review. In their mind the journalists are supporting the industry, so they don’t want to dish it.
and
I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn’t fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it’s almost embarrassing to say you’re part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.
Horyn's post in its entirety here.
2 comments:
i read that article too. i have to agree with a lot of it; i feel like it's the same situation here in new york. back when i was studying in tokyo, it was a different standards where people are a lot more open to ideas etc. but like that article, here in parsons, everyone thinks they are going to be the next alexander wang, and everyone aspires to make the next $300 tshirt. i want to slit my wrists talking to those people.
that's most unfortunate, especialy since NY is supposed to be one of the most important cities for leading fashion forward.
i was just reading something about "the next alexander wang". but really, why is there a need for a next one?
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