Remember the 2001 Ben Stiller comedy “Zoolander“? If ever there was a movie that shoved its thumb directly into the eye-socket of the fashion industry, this was it.
Just remember, gang… the fashion industry is the same bunch that gave the world “heroin chíc.”
As the evil villain Mugata (Will Farrell) famously said of this new fashion line, appropriately tagged “Derilícte”;
“Let me show you Derelícte! It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.”
In a disgusting example of life imitating art, I just can’t help but get the impression that the organizers of the Paris-based Balenciaga fashion show are emotionally incapable of seeing just how vomit-worthy it is to see filthy rich models walking through the snow with a $15,000 backpack slung over one shoulder.
Should I even bring up how literally sickening it is to see a rail thin model sauntering around in the snow toting what is suppose to represent all her worldly possessions in a plastic trash bag?
As reported by clueless jackasses at Vouge Business (emphasis mine);
“Fashion somehow doesn’t matter now, to me.” So said Demna after a Balenciaga show that was the first in mainstream fashion explicitly to address and reference Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – a terrible present reality that the luxury industry has been scrambling to adapt to.
While Kim Kardashian caused a stir – and made a loud scrunching noise as she walked by, dressed neck-to-toe in Balenciaga branded packaging tape, (which Demna says the company plans to sell) – it was the collection’s emotional referencing of the horrors of the war in Ukraine that spoke the loudest.
Many of Balenciaga’s expressions of solidarity with Ukraine on Sunday were literal and unambiguous. Before the show began we heard a recording of Demna reading a poem in Ukrainian: “It’s a poem telling Ukraine to be strong, to focus on love, and that its sons will protect it,” he explained afterwards.
Every guest was given a T-shirt in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, which François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of Kering, was wearing draped around his shoulders. During the post-show scrum Ukrainian pop was played over the sound system backstage.
Suffice it to say, I personally find every single individual involved with this cluster-fuck to be completely and totally devoid of humanity.
Honestly, do you think any of these self-centered jackasses are even capable of empathy? I doubt it.
These selfish, utterly contemptable wastes-of-skin are so removed from reality, they aren’t even capable of having the ability to understand what these refugees are going through.
This wasn’t fashion on parade. This was some of the worst examples of self-serving narcissism humanity is capable of on parade.