Quote on a Monday: The Thinker, David Baddiel on style icons

I find this paragraph, from Baddiel's column in the September 2009 issue of Esquire specifically appropriate on the day after the Golden Globes.

There are a number of women like Chloë Sevigny - I don't know their names: Alice Dellal? Caroline Sieber? - who The Culture has just decided are style icons. The awarding of style icon status will come with an awful lot of guff about how the said woman - who will always (a) employ a stylist, and (b) be given most of her clothes free by designers - is so always herself, how her personality shines through her fashion choices, how she defies conventions blah blah fucking blah.

He could have added (c) can afford any clothes they want thanks to their bottomless budget (d) can get designers to modify dresses for them - see Sieber being a Chanel brand ambassador, though no one really knows what it means.

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