Did anyone watch Fashion Police last weekend when Joan Rivers busted the real life “Cruella De Vil” herself, the editor-in-chief of Vogue America Anna Wintour, for wearing the taffeta print cocktail dress from Balenciaga's 2012 Resort collection in four different occasions for the past two months? Okay, maybe she loves the dress so much, maybe the dress has some kind of historical value for her, or whatever, but for a fashion icon like her, it was beyond unacceptable. I mean, come on, doesn’t she know that the first four points of 7 deadly sins of fashion was ‘to not wearing the same outfit more than once on public appearances’? And she was, claiming herself as the most powerful person in fashion industry but committed the worst crime ever. Oh no, what was she thinking when she put that dress on? Like, seriously Anna!
Remember when Kate Middleton caught wearing the same outfit for a number of public appearances and people started buzzing out about it and she was like, "There's nothing wrong with recycling," Um...yeah Kate, you were absolutely right. But Kate was nothing like Anna. She was just a next door girl who happened to marry a prince hence becoming a sudden fashion icon for any young girl living their dreams that someday they might marry their princes as well. Anna was nothing like that, there was nothing 'next door' about her whatsoever. In fact, she was the one who defines what fashion and what not. She was Cruella De Vil of fashion! She has often been the target of animal rights organizations like PETA, who are angered by her use of fur in Vogue, her pro-fur editorials and her refusal to run paid advertisements from animal rights organizations. Undeterred, she continues to use fur in photo spreads, saying there's always a way to wear it. Nobody was wearing fur until she put it on the cover in the early 1990s. She ignited the entire industry. Though am not with her in this fur issue, but the way she deal with it was caught my attention from the beginning. She won my respect on how grace and classy she was on responding to this matter.
As a girl, I looked up to her as my fashion guru, all the long way until I saw her committed such a shameful mistake that hard for me to even digested it. So disappointed. Even me never wear the same outfit twice in any public appearance though am not a fashion icon whatsoever. I mean, any girl would consider that as a felony and deserves humiliations. I remember my ex-boyfriend and I used to argued whenever we got invited to some kind of occasions and I was like freaking out about what should I wear and he would like, "Darling, you've got the biggest wardrobe in the entire planet full of nice clothes, what are you talking about?" I then would like, "Yeah, but I wore them all already! Hello?" Men...they all are so typical, what they know anyway? My two rules of fashion are 'to not wearing the same outfit twice' and 'to not wearing any similar outfit with others in one occasion.' I, personally, consider those as unforgivable crimes. That is why I opened a shop at first place, so I can have the whole candy shop for myself whenever I need it and avoid the humiliation. Ha!
Okay, back to the extraordinary Ms. Wintour, as I said before, through the years she has come to be regarded as one of the most powerful people in fashion, setting trends and anointing new designers. She has often been described as a perfectionist who routinely makes impossible, arbitrary demands of subordinates: "kitchen scissors at work", in the words of one commentator. Because of her position, her fashion statements often closely scrutinized and imitated and her influence extends outside fashion. After her former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the 2003 best selling roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, later made into a successful film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor widely believed to be based on her, she often described as emotionally distant. She was never tolerate flaws. So yeah, now I hope you guys can see where did my disappointment come from. For someone like her, it was so unforgivable and deserved humiliations. Even though the sin had proved to us that she was a human afterward and it was kind of relieving to know that, but still, shame on you, Anna! Shame on you!
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