WASHINGTON -- Hours after it became clear that President Barack Obama's trade agenda would make it through Congress, a top Democratic voice on foreign policy told The Huffington Post that while he respected the Obama administration's foreign policy goals, it was pursuing them in a dangerous fashion with its current approach to international trade.
At first glance it seems like any ol' menswear collection in white and pale washed-out hues but up close it's an epic translation of hospital workwear into fashion with its snap closures, leather shoe covers, and mittens.
And fashion, with its emphasis on new trends and seasons, is wasteful by design.
But suppose that luxury were separated from fashion, with its constant desire for change and built-in obsolescence?
Men's wear is much less affected with apathy than women's fashion, with its systematic behavior and endless kowtowing to a few powerful editors and fashion executives.
France, however, undoubtedly led fashion with its state workshops at the Gobelins, the refined French acanthus ornament contrasting sharply with the coarser Dutch designs.
Then again, beauty and brutality have always been braided together in fashion, with its cruel dictates that yesterday's perfectly useful purchases be discarded and its exclusion of the fleshy, the poor, the old.
His exit made way for designer Demna Gvasalia of Vetements, a cult label that itself provided fashion with its most original catwalk show venue of the year – a Chinese restaurant in Paris.
The dashboard was the height of 1960's fashion with its wood-grained vinyl trim -- so easy to clean, should you spill your pink champagne in an abrupt stop.
Fashion, with its strict laws and its inherent respect for the human body, happened to be one of several powerful weapons with which she waged war on all who would diminish or exclude women, including rival magazine editors, with their stuffy, snobbish approach to fashion coverage.
