While perusing images of the recently concluded fashion weeks in Portugal, Thailand, and China (because that's what normal people do in their free time rather than actually interact with other human beings), I came to a startling realization: while it's always been the case that fashion's had a side to it that seems deliberately strange to my untrained and somewhat plebeian eye, there's now a subgenre of what appears to be deliberate pandering to specific pop stars.

Then again, perhaps the I'm so weird! Whee! pop stars themselves rose from that fashion subgenre. Or, perhaps they came into being completely independently of each other, and I'm just grasping at straws here. It's entirely possible! But, before you dismiss my assessment as amateur (it is amateur), witness Exhibits A thru G.