No need to get gussied up when you’re afraid to leave your apartment. And sure, some of that may be true, but I’m looking for something a bit deeper. I want to talk about what killed the essence of fashion — the very soul of creativity and expression once shared by both designer and customer.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/10/how-fashion-as-a-lethal-weapon-successfully-destroyed-america/
Very good article, very insightful. I would have said the decline started in the 60s with the hippie movement, but the author accurately carried it all the way back to the 1930s.
I have a whole book about Marlene Dietrich. She was an icon.