It's hard to think of another writer who has so completely fashioned our view of a country as Alexander McCall Smith has with his No 1 Ladies Detective Agencyy books.
Thanks to the Internet, never before has so much fashion information been so broadly available, but those objects of study and fascination still remain out of reach to many enthusiasts.
"Men's fashion has so many rules, which means creativity within constraints," said Mordechai Rubenstein, who designs one-of-a-kind boutonnieres fashioned from fishing lures under the label Mister Mort.
Also, fashion has so many star players, with their own machinery and fan base, who is really an authority?
Perhaps the fashion world has so lionized Mr. Bowie (Gucci is a sponsor of the London exhibition) because he has so thoroughly assimilated fashion's own logic of remorseless supercession.
Juventus responded in the ruthless fashion which has so damaged Celtic.
The way that Ms. Beckham has so speedily developed a clear fashion identity could teach many aspiring American designers a thing or two.
"The fashion business has so much of that — so much marketing, so much hype — that there needs to be a spot where that doesn't exist.
Like many of the creative industries, much of the fashion world has so far treated "the internet" as another trend, like colour-blocking, which will be long forgotten by Spring 2012.
Culpo: The fashion industry has so many amazing women running the show - like Victoria Beckham, Stella McCartney, Donatella, Donna Karan.
