Model turned designer Erin Wasson really ought to shut the hell up about poor people having the 'best style' and how the homeless are so, you know, like, chic. Not only because, coming from a privileged super model (or coming from anyone really, but especially a privileged super model) it's just offensive; but also because, as a designer about to launch her first clothing range in stores, shouldn't her ambition be to sell us clothes, not give us reasons not to buy them (reason 1 being that poor people will always be better dressed than people who can afford to buy her designer clobber anyway, and reason 2 being that the designer of that clobber is a patronising, vapid, idiot)?
In the Sunday Times Style magazine today she opened the vacuum inside her head for long enough to let the air rush in and displace this gem from her otherwise empty skull and into the tape recorder: "The poorest people have the best style — they don’t just walk into swanky stores and swipe."
Really Erin? So us poor recessionistas won't be needing to swipe any of your RVCA tat then.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article5838080.ece
And if you want to watch her hang herself with her own rope, read her feeble defence here (if you can manage to get to the end without your throat clenching shut in rage):
http://stylefrizz.com/200902/erin-wasson-on-homeless-chic-reloaded/
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