Fashion... Prevailing or Failing?
Here’s the first of the best beauty looks from the British Fashion Awards as reported in Vogue. The rest didn’t seem any better. Prevailing, but not for long.
As Oscar Wilde said, “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to change it every six months.” I’ve loved this quote since I first read it, but I’m not so sure that Wilde really meant it. Brief “research” reveals that Oscar was a dapper dresser, a real dandy and pleased for others to so note. From an 1882 press release on arrival in NYC… “His outer garment was a long ulster trimmed with two kinds of fur, which reached almost to his feet. He wore patent-leather shoes, a smoking-cap or turban, and his shirt might be termed ultra-Byronic, or perhaps—décolleté. A sky-blue cravat of the sailor style hung well down upon the chest.”
it seems when it comes to renouncing fashion, Wilde doth protest too much. The British Fashion Awards seem more honest. I think they know what they’re peddling is ephemeral malarky. Fashion you buy. Style you possess.