I'm fascinated by the business of fashion. My two favourite movies are probably The September Issue and Valentino: The Last Emperor. Fashion is so resolutely, purely only about the ephemeral and the made up. It's the ultimate creative industry because there's no substance to it whatsoever. Everything's invented and quixotic. It's all nonsense. And therefore it's all incredibly human.
So, fashion gets to a lot of creative industry innovation early on (see earlier post) but it's also the most obliviously unaware of the real world outside its bubble. People will say the most awful amoral stuff to encapsulate an aesthetic. Witness, from the same article:
“I think your story up there is really strong,” Aybar said. “It’s, like, Undernourished Retards—in a beautiful way.” He liked the “living-under-the-bridge vibe.”