When I checked in on the news in the nyt today, as with most days since November 6th or so, I found a pretty sour picture of the world. The dire need for the proposed stimulus package, high, high, high unemployment rates, can the stimulus package be enough? And that's not even getting to Israel. It all sucks. So what did I do? What I have done for most of the Bush presidency, I dove for cover into the style pages.
I clicked on Bill Cunningham's always wonderful video On The Street. A small laughed escaped my lips as I thought how nice it is to just be superficial and enjoy candid shots of women on the street without thinking about the future of America. I just love the theme music. What will it be this week? Women with animal prints? Christmas sweaters? Winter boots? Heels in the winter? There are so many women in New York and so many of them dress crazy so there is not dearth of support for any crazy theme Bill might pick. What fun!
Well, I was duped!
This weeks theme was fashion in the face of "the total collapse of the world financial markets". Because, purportedly, hemlines, and fashion in general, have been a great signifier of financial times. Hemlines went down in the 1930s. What will they do now? "Its a fabulus time to be alive and to watch this unfold in our time." Really, Bill, I'm not sure we should be so delighted just yet. I'm not sure anyone wants to celebrate the bobo fashion of the breadline.
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I love Bill Cunningham, too. I will dress extra slutty tonight in honor of my attempts to singlehandedly consume this country out of a deep, severe recession.
Happy Snow Day, New York.
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