<![CDATA[Jezebel: fashion faux pas]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: fashion faux pas]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/fashionfauxpas http://jezebel.com/tag/fashionfauxpas <![CDATA[ "I don't believe in fashion faux pas. Every...]]> "I don't believe in fashion faux pas. Every look I did was important at the time. When I was in the Lady Marmalade video it was all about being over the top, sexy and playful... Would I do that today? Probably not. It was a different time, a different place for me... I've had so many wardrobe malfunctions on stage. One time I was doing a dance move and I had to get off a table. Somehow my high heel got stuck in my fishnet tights and I fell flat on the floor. I sat there, with a bruised butt and a tear in my pantyhose...Being objectified in magazines comes with the territory." That's X-Tina Aguilera, folks, in the Times of London's weekly "My Life In Fashion" column. [Times of London]

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<![CDATA[These Days, Everyone's A Style Expert]]> Today in The New York Times, Eric Wilson writes, "Everyone's a critic." The glut of people who consider themselves to be "style experts" is growing. Lloyd Boston is on Full Frontal Fashion and the Today show; William Sledd is the Gap sales clerk from Ask A Gay Man; Robert Verdi is a "fashion guru"; Queer Eye star Carson Kressley has a new makeover show on Lifetime; Tim Gunn has a guide to style, with model Veronica Webb; Fonzworth Bentley comments on Access Hollywood; America's Next Top Model's Jay Manuel is also on the Style Network . But why the hell do we need so many "experts"? What do these people really offer us?



Do these people say the cutting, critical, judgmental things we ourselves want to say when we see fashion, good or bad? And uh, don't we sort of already say those things, if not out loud, then in our heads? And, in this era of runway photos gone global on the Internet and fast-food equivalent "fast fashion" stores like H&M and Forever 21, aren't we all "style experts" at this point?

Everyone's A Critic [New York Times]

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