Daily Archives: June 27, 2011

Fashion, I understand, is a seductive target. It’s hard to resist attacking such a big, glossy, seemingly superficial industry. But please, can we stop? Yesterday, reading another  treatise (this one by Tom Sykes in the Sunday Telegraph) blaming fashion for John Galliano’s descent into addiction, which led to his arrest for alleged anti-Semitic remarks, which led to his firing from Christian Dior and the house that bears his name, which led to a trial last week, I wanted to rip my hair out. Come on. Can we get some perspective?

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Vanessa FriedmanVanessa has been the FT’s fashion editor since 2003, and is based in New York, though she lived in London for 12 years.
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