![]() It seems the real fashion victims now are Lolita's age.įashion is so self-referential and its cycles are so short that a lot of the "content" of fashion has disappeared that is, nothing today has the political impact of '60s near-nudity, or shirts made out of the American flag. ![]() ![]() It is ironic that, as fashion enters the third millennium, clothes for grown-up women have become positively genteel, with the twin set seeming ubiquitous and even the bad Brits toned down. The marketing of clothes - some of them pretty raunchy - to children and pre-teens raises all sorts of issues about what clothes "mean," and about the influence of the vast network of popular culture salesmanship and the sickening cult of celebrity. When Calvin Klein was criticized last month for an ad featuring small children in underwear, it wasn't just more of the outrage that has greeted so many disturbing fashion images - notably skeletal models in tiny undies.
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