In a January 2 interview on NPR, the fabulous Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys New York, talked about woman’s fashion during the last decade. His take: the last ten years was a masochistic period for fashion. His examples, “shoes became ridiculously high and very painful to wear” and women thinking “legs never long enough, boobs never big enough, faces never Botox enough.”
What do you think? Are you wearing higher heels? Or are you still trying to rock the Croc?*
When you look at these shoes do you think fashion forward or iron maiden?
What about these boots? Dominatrix or dominated? 
Ironic isn’t it, or maybe just plain hypocritical, that Barney’s sells all of these shoes. They also sell 17 so called beauty treatments that contain hyaluronic acid. From Wikipedia:
Hyaluronan (also called hyaluronic acid or hyaluronate) is an anionic, non-sulfated glycosaminoglycan distributed widely throughout connective, epithelial, and neural tissues. … One of the chief components of the extracellular matrix, hyaluronan contributes significantly to cell proliferation and migration, and may also be involved in the progression of some malignant tumors. T… Hyaluronic acid is also a component of the group A streptococcal extracellular capsule,[3] and is believed to play a role in virulence.[4][5]
Does that sound like skin care to you or skin hate?
Now I’m not trying to trash Barneys. I love Barneys. And God knows, I am a fool to take on Doonan. After all, after one blogger criticized his work, Doonan responded in the New York Observer saying, “… I see now that there are two kinds of people in the world: In the first group, we have those who “do,” and in the second group, we have those who sit at their computers on their ever-widening asses blogging, platforming and commenting on the not-always-perfect efforts of the first group.”
But I am just so tired of fashion insiders lamenting the state of the industry. If they don’t like the anorexic models, the unattainable standards and the ridiculous products, they are in a better position to change things than their customers are. Yes we can vote with our (designer) wallets but if the stores don’t gives us a reasonable selection. What are we supposed to wear? 
*Oh and btw, ladies, you can never rock the Croc. Never
