{"id":120,"date":"2003-09-15T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/09\/15\/i-just-dont-know-what-to-do-with-myse"},"modified":"2003-09-15T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T19:30:58","slug":"i-just-dont-know-what-to-do-with-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/09\/15\/i-just-dont-know-what-to-do-with-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"I just don&#8217;t know what to do with myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a87'><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xl-recordings.com\/broadcast\/~ijustdontknow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ion\/katemoss.jpg\" height=\"280\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who killed the cool in fashion? What exactly was it that drained the excitement out of this fascinating, frivolous, inspiring, transformative, gossamer and endlessly diverting business, one that also happens to be among the largest employers in New York City? <\/p>\n<p>\nIt seems mere moments ago that the attention of mainstream America alighted on the humble garment business, transforming models into household names, designers into media darlings and movie stars into dress dummies whose forays onto red carpets became notable less for celebrity pixie dust than for the labels inside their clothes.<\/p>\n<p>\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nIt would appear that in fashion, as in music and other art forms, there is at the moment &#8220;no new movement, no strong movement of coolness,&#8221; the filmmaker John Waters said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure at some point the children will think of something cool to get on the nerves of the generation before them,&#8221; he added. But, in fashion, an event like that seems pretty far off. <\/p>\n<p>\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nIf there is any single trend among designers of the moment, it would seem to be one that unexpectedly mimics socially conscious movements like Slow Food and that favors unhip issues like political engagement and the sources for raw materials, and that actually entertains ideas less historically suited to fashion types than to policy wonks and nerds. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever we do, we don&#8217;t call it fashion,&#8221; said Angela, a member of the Manhattan design collective As Four, whose members live communally and eschew last names. &#8220;We have been very bored ourselves, lately,&#8221; she said of fashion, criticizing its uniformity and the insinuating presence of corporate affiliations.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nEl NY Times se pregunta <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/14\/fashion\/14FASH.html?8dpc\">si la moda sigue siendo cool<\/a> o no. Y pasa revista a las inmensamente aburridas vidas de las divas de otros tiempos, como Kate Moss, &#8220;domesticada&#8221; ahora como madre y musa a tiempo parcial. V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who killed the cool in fashion? What exactly was it that drained the excitement out of this fascinating, frivolous, inspiring, transformative, gossamer and endlessly diverting business, one that also happens to be among the largest employers in New York City? It seems mere moments ago that the attention of mainstream America alighted on the humble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}