Valentin-who? A Particularly Un-dedicated Follower of Fashion

Without knowledge of the industry or indeed, near anything other than bile, Sam is challenged by Beth to write about the Spring/Summer 2008 Collection from conker-faced Valentino, shown at Paris Fashion Week. What follows has little to do with fashion and a lot to do with general anger and ignorance.

Not only do I know almost nothing at all about fashion, I am even partial to a moderate, often expletive-strewn rant about the industry purely due to its existence. Here lies a money-spinning machine of cartoonish failed artists ‘creating’ dresses that no-one can wear anywhere but in an exotic Chanel advert directed by David LaChappelle. These people exist in plains of life only they can dream of for no one else on the planet would want to stay around them. The fakeness, the callous nature of its half-life for models, it glorification of people who simply sketch whatever they thought Betty and Wilma would wear on acid and call this work genius. This is not a part of civilised society to be in love with.

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Valentino unveiled his final gorgeous ready-to-wear collection yesterday. Style.com has the details of his Spring/Summer ’08 look…

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American History X director Tony Kaye has attempted to make a neutral documentary on abortion; Lake Of Fire, he’s talking about it with The AV Club.

Anna Pickard sorts through the new Jennifer Lopez video for Do It Well and attempts to find a storyline.