https://www.washingtonpost.com.....he-game-at...
I love reading Robin Givhan. I may not find the clothing appealing to me but think she's brilliant at discussing attitude and values. She makes me think and rethink. I do like McCartney's clothing this time. Is it because coolness equals playfulness, as Givhan suggests? I always thought of cool as being above being drawn in but playfulness suggests an advancing directness. And I got a kick out of her dismissal of Sliman's runway:
"Each little grumpy model was crowned with a grunge tiara." Sullen models are a complete turn-off for me in even trying to consider the clothing they sport. I feel like they are a slap in the face to the onlooker, to the customer, to me. Unless, of course, in Walter Mitty fashion, I myself wished to be that aggressively bad-tempered girl but I don't.
The whole brief piece is filled with pithy distillations about what is confidence, narcissism, powerlessness, suffering, undress, adulthood vs quest for youthfulness.
