Posted on 02/05/2010 5:40:16 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
February 6, 2010
Save the planet? Darling, that’s so last season
Ring-pull handbags and frocks made of milk? Celebrity fashionistas aren’t helping ecology, they are glorifying themselves
Janice Turner
Although I celebrate the Oscar nomination for Colin Firth, undisputed king of simmering internal conflict, I’m concerned about his wife Livia. I’m not sure she will cope, not after the Screen Actors Guild Awards when, “just hours” before the ceremony, her dress woven from milk — yes, milk — didn’t fit, and her clutch bag encrusted in ring-pulls clashed with her gold vegetarian shoes. Undeniably, as her Vogue blog put it, this was a “near disaster”.
Thankfully, a tragedy of Haitian proportions was averted by Livia’s high-speed thinking. She rang up Tom Ford’s tailor — “Thank you, Mario. Thank you!” — and ditched the bag, made from cans reclaimed from rubbish dumps in Brazilian favelas, for one by Stella McCartney. Phew. It isn’t easy being the wife of an A-list star when you’ve made it your personal mission to travel the globe attending red-carpet functions in “ethical fashions”.
Well, it’s not that hard actually. In New York Livia finds “wonderful sustainable shoes” and in LA is manicured with vegan nail polish — is the regular type made from meat? Who knew! — attended by all manner of “eco-stylists”. Excitedly, she posts: “Is this the start of a completely sustainable wardrobe? Has anybody actually managed to achieve that? Fashionably?” And this is a woman who studied for a PhD.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Woven from MILK!?! Ok, somebodys GOT to explain this to me. Just what the hell is ‘’woven milk’’?
“This is what leftism boils down to for many well-educated folks: certificates of their moral and intellectual superiority. They zealously collect these certificates, feverishly competing against one another. For self-glorification.”
Sounds kinda like Carbon Credits.
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