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I definitely understand why there was such a negative reaction to the collaborative(?) Spain-Hollywood-Parisss Ungaro collection this week. It was "crafted" in a matter of three weeks by an established, hardworking, young designer, Estrella Archs, under the bizarro creative control of Lindzz Lohan, a testy, workless, drugged actress, all bones and poles and borrowed jewelry and hair extensions. Fay-shun Folks were miffed that a serious member of their elite workforce was made to (or made to appear to be made to) garner approval from a flailing chick a decade+ her junior with no professional experience beyond a daffy legging line and a few trainwreck ego-a-ego sessions with Kaiser Karl featured in Interview Magazine or Purple Magazine or whatever (or both?)...the crowds came to jeer. I'm not sure the fact of the garments mattered at all; in order to ensure their jobs, their world, all of the professional professionals must needs despise the publicity ploy that was La Lohan's hire. And good. Fine. It's just read this....

Umm.....you "have to choose"????!! I don't like that, not a bit. A diversity of pursuits, projects, media is ideal, and not problematic in the least (and didn't we do away with those "a manly painter paints" biases in the 70s?). Fame is the trouble--FAME PARADING AS ABILITY, such a fallacy. Fame sells. It has the "ability" to sell, but fame does not guarantee a thoughtful or fine record or collection of clothes (it doesn't make this impossible either). We need to inspect the slovenly business practice of handing opportunities to the "already opportuned," whether they be actors or actors' children (ugh). But if anything, artists/makers should be encouraged to make more and more of the new and unfamiliar and other-than-typical and challenging. I write and sing and take pictures (and I would totes do a movie or television role or QVC spot if given the chance). I don't think this is disingenuous or flaky. I think it's natural, natural to not see demarcations and rules everywhere, to not feel forbidden from treading fresh ground (or old ground...whatever ground).

One note: did Lindzz even glance at Ungaro collections of the past? Nothing in this collection is even Ungaro referential. A creative director of an old house that functions sans-founder is firstthing given a key to an archive (a rich, rare archive), whomever they hire next really ought to use that key (...obv coke-y jokey).