posted by guest

Apr 20, 2007 5:39PM

i expected so much more from the segment, like the models actually speaking, considering they're supposedly bringing back the personality and vivre of the supermodel era.

the host did sound dim, but probably 98% of the viewers have the same layman's knowledge of fashion that she does, seeing as the most scintillating question she can muster is if coco and chanel are their real names.
i also liked how they completely neglected referencing the sept 2004 cover as the last big models cover.

posted by ladySOV

Apr 20, 2007 5:44PM

Perhaps Anne Curry was paying attention during class, rather than sneaking a peak at Vogue magazine behind her trapper keeper. She would never confuse there with their.

posted by Faran

Apr 20, 2007 5:52PM

Sov, I appreciate your view that some things are more important than fashion, but saying style is only for dummies is a tired argument.

Vera Wang and Kate Spade are just two examples of women who have managed to build very smart empires based on clothes, and Cathy Horyn and Sally Singer are some of the most intelligent social critics that America has. Robin Givhan at the Washington Post has a Pulitzer Prize for a fashion story she wrote - even Lily Cole is going to Cambridge University!

Come on now.

Also, I see no incorrect grammar in this post, but that could be because I'm exhausted.

posted by guest

Apr 20, 2007 6:04PM

i think ladySOV means in the title for the post, it's there instead of their. but keeping us readers posted on fashion news is hard work, so spelling errors are small fries. if one really wants to see egregious spelling and grammar, look at chanel iman's myspace.
but i agree, an interest in fashion does not equate to stupidity in other areas. clearly people who read this blog are interested in fashion, and as a reader i expected a more discerning feature from the today show about the vogue cover. however, the today show is for the broad american public, most of whom aren't into fashion as i am and the today show caters to that broad demographic.

posted by Faran

Apr 20, 2007 6:09PM

I love that I didn't even look at the title. Changing it now, but I still think the larger argument stands

- the really stupid people are the ones who follow fashion blindly, or who think that it has no relevance to "real issues."

But thanks for noticing the title, because I wouldn't have!

posted by my revolting rant

Apr 20, 2007 7:02PM

Mash note to the F word:

Like it or not, visual identity, design, marketing – aka style – shapes our world. Personal style aside, what area of life is immune from fashion? Religion, science, business, the arts all flicker at its whim. Our collective culture is defined, recycled, reinvented and innovated through the ever-changing vision of its interpreters.

My spelling is atrocious and my grammar is a horror. Far from intelligent? Perhaps, but maybe smart enough to know:
* the international economy is interwoven with the thread of the fashion industry
* the style pages feature the best fantasy sports ever
* Anna's desperate to sell those white Gap shirts

Blah, blah, blah...

Fashion is fun... and funny, as evidenced by this video :-)

posted by revolting rant

Apr 20, 2007 8:13PM

ps: Cerulean blue flashback (1:05 minute in)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji8tGSpPq80

posted by Carissa

Apr 20, 2007 8:56PM

Anon 6:04, just wondering, but did you get Chanel's myspace from my blog?

posted by casey

Apr 21, 2007 2:05AM

Where were Agyness and Sasha?? My favs!

Oh and also, Miuccia Prada has a PhD in Poly Sci (I forget where it's from)...

Also, I think the whole "fashion is for dummys" thing has well seeped itself into fashion school-- most of the people I go to school with are complete morons. "I like clothes and don't get math, I should study fashion!!" No.

posted by Heather Chandler

Apr 21, 2007 9:24AM

@ Casey

Funny but I took a different route. For me it was, "I want to afford clothes and don't get math, I should study Law!!" Sad but true...

posted by Jordan

Apr 22, 2007 11:22AM

I'm wondering why no one mentioned JStam's nipples. We are talking about network TV and a see through top, here folks.