Hollywood's horrible perceptions

Most smart people are aware that Hollywood represents ideals that are totally unrealistic. The so-called "lucky" few hundred people who live it are rich, famous, and beautiful but they don't represent the world's population. Unfortunately, too many people think they ARE the ideal representation of human beings. WRONG.

I was watching E! fashion police of the grammy awards. The judges were the extremely esteemed Jay Manuel, Giuliana Rancic, Joan Rivers, and Khloe Kardashian. Obviously these people are total fashion gods, and I care a whole lot about what they have to say.

I heard Joan Rivers' voice and decided to save my IQ points from dropping further and picked up the remote to change the channel, when I heard her talk about Jennifer Hudson

"Wow she looks great. She's losing the baby weight, but she's not there yet, but she's getting there"

she's not there yet?! but she's getting there?! My question is: Getting to WHERE?! Jennifer Hudson is a naturally curvy woman. She will always be that way and that is OK and perfectly fabulous. The nerve of this woman to say she's not there yet!!! Joan Rivers, with her skin falling off her face and a complete lack of understanding of beauty (obviously injecting your face with 1000 botox injections does NOT work dearest Joan) is criticizing Jennifer Hudson's post-baby bod? (which looks fabulous by the way) We cannot all be size ZEROES!

Jennifer Hudson is an Oscar winner, has a voice that can make grown men cry, and really does look great after giving birth. Joan Rivers (I could probably dedicate several blog posts to the LACK of her contributions and achievements in the field of acting, or art in general) = stupid.

Khloe threw a couple of gems in there like "she looks thin, she looks fabulous" (she was referring to Sandra Bullock) Obviously thin = fabulous. W.O.W.

I think the worst part about all of this is that E! decides to PUT these people on the fashion panel and allows their voices to be heard. Fine, there is free of speech. But, I really hope tweeny boppers, and people who actually watch the Hollywood's CNN channel are able to EDIT out whatever these women say because Hollywood will and should NEVER define beauty.

Kudos E! You guys did an awesome job picking fashion "mavens" who imparted their "knowledge" onto the rest of us. If you want to give us fashion "advice" and stimulate the economy by shoving products and ideas down our throats, pick smarter and more accomplished people next time..like TIM GUNN!!

Fashion is confusing

I don't worship fashion. To me, it's just another accessory in life. But, I do browze the pictures from the fashion weeks that happen around the world. I do like some designers (Proenza & Schouler, DVF, Rachel Roy) but I'd never spend that much money on clothing. EVER. So I was doing the usual browzing when I came across about the newest sensation at NY Fashion week. It was a 13 year old girl called Tavi Genison! She's a fashion blogger who's shot to fame thanks to her extremely intuitive insight. She dyes her hair grey, wears the clear plastic shoes that are red, and rocks mis-matched multi-colored tights. Designers are all over her and are courting her to come to their shows and actually care about her opinions! A couple of designers have also consulted her for their designer lines. 13 YEARS OLD?!

O.M.G. 13?! jesus christ. At that age, I was happy with my mom gave me persmission to buy a sweater from The Gap so I could tell the cool girls at school that I DIDN'T buy clothes from the salvation army.

So I decided to check out her blog and see what the hooplah was all about it. First of all, she does NOT write like a 13 year old. If I had a blog when I was 13, my entries would be something like this:

"It was a great day today. My mom let me buy a shirt from The Gap! I will be cool at school! I also like this boy named Jeremy. He is SOOO cute but only likes cheerleaders :/ :/ I wish I was pretty. I need to buy more clothes from The Gap"

She writes like that of an experienced fashion critic! Holy shizz. A lot of it is above my head because I simply don't know the intricacies of fashion. She analyzes and theorizes it and I have no clue what the hell she's talking about. But apparently, it makes sense to the connoisseurs of fashion, which finally brings me to the point of this entry...

Fashion is confusing to me. It really is. Or I think it's more of my lack of patience to try to understand it. I like to look nice, but I hate thinking too much about it. In my mind, fashion is something that should just come easy and be effortless. I understand others put a lot of thought into the way they dress, but what about just dressing in the way that makes you happy? I don't want to spend more than 6 minutes debating an outfit or how it goes well together.

I probably don't cultivate the patience to understand because it's due to mmy annoyance at the fashion industry because in their mind, you need to pay exhorbitant amounts of money for good clothing, especially when it's made for a fraction of the price. I do NOT believe that quality is only for the extremely privileged. I will NEVER spend even $400 on a dVF wrap dress no matter how classic of a piece it is. I can't justify spending that much on a single piece of clothing item when children around the world go hungry every day. Fine, you don't even have to go that dramatic, but there are people that can't afford to pay gas to fill up their cars in the US now.

So yes, fashion is confusing. I read through a lot of entries in her blog, and she's talented, especially in writing. She takes pictures of herself in funky designer clothing and talks about it as if it's art. Well, it is art because it's someone's creating. But, you know what..art is universal and should be accepted by all. I don't think Da Vinci, Monet, Van Gogh created their masterpieces thinking that one day, they will be sold for millions of dollars. They simply created art because it was beautiful and it was their passion.

A lot of designers do create beautiful clothing. But it's never with the right intentions because they ultimately choose to sell it to the upper-most crest of society. The rich people. Apparently, THEY deserve to look more beautiful than the rest of us.

I went off on different tangents, but ultimately: either I'm "uncouth" and don't really know how to appreciate fashion in the truest of sense, but I can't understand it when it's spoken to me in "fashion speak" aka Tavi's writing in her blog. Check it out.