DKNY - NAY
Even the ultra-cool Natalie Portman and her vegan shoe line can’t make fashion look even an iota intelligent. Sure, not everyone who claims to be part of the fashion industry is completely and utterly vapid or (totally) obsessed with image, but when Fashion Week dictates lives and adhering to unrealistic and often unhealthy standards of “beauty” is the only way to feel “good” about yourself, maybe “superficial” is a euphemism for other more insulting words. Point is, fashonistas, models and designers the world over are now jumping on the Go Green! bandwagon in an (futile) attempt to shed their ditsy image. If it’s not one trend, it’s another.
Here’s the deal: DKNY is getting their supermodels to demand an auto-free New York. Sounds great, but the execution is all wrong in that it’s obvious hypocrisy. I guess this means that all those fancy designers and models will be riding their bikes (and touching slimy subway poles) to showrooms and high-end business appointments. I’d love to see Donna Karen roll up to Fashion Week on her bike or off the M60, fully decked out in sweat stains because her super stretch limousine is out of the question. I’d also like to think that if you don’t eat a proper meal (and yes, I am implying super models), your bike ride down Avenue of the Americas to the Mercedes-Benz sponsored fashion show (how ironic) wouldn’t be so easy. That’s just biology.
The real knee-slapper here is that this DKNY mouthpiece thinks, “If supermodels can’t solve the world’s problems, then I don’t know who can.” This means that by chaining spray-painted bikes to locations around New York and by having models yak about the importance of this “humanitarian cause” (much thanks to Gothamist which was quick to point out that the bike idea had been done before), the world will be a better place.
Plus, DKNY’s pretty little bobble also reminded us: “You could take a cab and skip two meals, or you can ride a bike and skip one meal.” Yeah, take this broad’s advice.
Obviously, green is the new black.
Merci,
Lisa Marie
