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oh hey, i wrote this post a whiiiile ago and it got lost in my drafts somewhere. anyways. a little late off the presses, but one-hundo-percent relevant. and besides, mostly this week has been all about steubenville and the worse than worst coverage and eeewwwwwww rape culture i don't wanna. so. fashion instead.

* this is a GREAT PIECE! about fashion and feminism!

bam! blamo! probably my favourite part is where she calls marc jacobs out for the dickbag he is. yaaay! he's groooooooss and i'm glad she says as much.

but also. so much good stuff covered. like:

 and like:

and issues of cost and sustainability/toxicity. all of the things! how wonderful to have someone who loves fashion for the parts that are worth loving, but remains critical. i am so glad that there are women really engaging in this kind of thinking around fashion. because so often it feels like feminism and fashion cannot mix... like when a young-man friend of mine said to me 'erin, i don't get you. i mean. you like all this girly, shallow, fashion stuff... but, like, you're smart and stuff. like. not girly at all!' because it is too much to think of fashion as anything but shallow. and it is too much to put 'girly' and 'smart' in the same world... as if they're opposites. (i am totes girly, too. fyi. and i am PROUD of that. ugh.) and maybe just maybe, the more people who aren't 'shallowgirlydumb' show that they care about the world of fashion, the more there will be a widespread demand for change that the industry won't be able to ignore - because it is no longer coming from outside.

happy friday, people-sized people!