But this week has offered a reminder of why we should prize an actress who has fashioned one of the most fascinating careers in a business notorious for pigeonholing its starlets early, keeping them boxed in and discarding them when their physical attributes show signs of sagging, bagging or otherwise naturally evolving.
Perhaps it is unsurprising, then, that he should have an old fashioned love for the club which generations of his family have supported.
If anyone should have a fashion blog, it's Princess Julia.
At least Downtown actually felt like a place that should have a fashion week, rather than a place that should have an American Girl store.
Miuccia Prada gave her usual spiel after the MiuMiu show, that everyone should have "fun with fashion".
I countered with something to the effect that Hollywood should have been the fashion centre of the world ten years ago, as far as summer sports clothes are concerned.
Business mentoring ("all the stuff you should have learned in fashion school and didn't," Ms. Bland said) will also be available to designers in the Manufacture New York stable, and she is planning to help arrange paid apprenticeships with designers like Nanette Lepore and Ralph Rucci who have expressed their support for the program.
"Personally, I think Wal-Mart should have given its fashion foray a bit more time to take rather than going from ditch to ditch then trying to end up somewhere in the muddy middle," wrote Spieckerman.
He has signed nine new players since arriving, and though the departure of the recently installed captain Paul Robinson has come as surprise, the new arrivals should have enough about them to fashion a promotion challenge, even if the manager cautions that his team will need time to gel.
Fashion should have a sense of humour about itself.
That fashion should have fallen out of love with illustration when it fell in love with photography was inevitable.
