I love reading Robin Givhan's article on the Daily Beast
website. Formerly, Givhan was the fashion editor for The Washington Post and currently she is the fashion critic and fashion correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek.
She is smart, incisive and informative, winning
the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. The Pulitzer Committee noted her "witty, closely observed essays....
transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."
She is not afraid to mince words and does not pander to the fragile, "do not touch" egos of the fashion industry. In fact, no one is exempt from her pen. Writing about the
attire worn by VP Dick Cheney when attending a ceremony
to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz, Given punched "It's the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower.... Here he was wearing something that visually didn't symbolize to me the level of solemnity and respect that I thought a service like this demanded... He was representing
the American people. I don't want to be represented by someone in, you know, a parka
who looks like he's at a Green Bay Packer game."
She writes with an intelligence and clarity about and discusses all facets of culture. In describing Nancy Grace, she writes "it makes my ears bleed to look at her". She has a
remarkable eye and through her writing, perhaps puts the more esoteric aspects of fashion
in sharper focus for those who maybe oblivious to the power and importance of dress.
illustration courtesy of www.thestylenotebook.com
Quotes
Dick Cheney - www.cbsnews.com
Nancy Grace - www.robingivhan.com
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