Dressing the Forgotten Woman
Briefly

Conventional wisdom has it that the promise on the runway should be aspirational the person I want to be (richer, thinner, taller, more fabulous, more rebellious, more sexy, etc.) rather than the person I am.
Designers have a tendency to talk about vague characters when they are explaining their collections, but it's rare to find a character who is actually fleshed-out, in all her glorious quotidian complexity, on a runway.
Read at www.nytimes.com
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