I watched an episode of Making The Cut recently that saddened me. No,
I don't like the show for myself, I happened to be watching it so that I
could spend time with my wife holding her hand and cuddling and all that in front of the TV.
The show is about a corner of the fashion industry. The winner gets
$1 million and gets featured in the Amazon fashion store so that
people can buy their designs.
They tell the back-stories behind the people, they show them rushing
to and fro trying to make a dress or pantsuit or whatever in a crazy
amount of time, and then they show the judges passing judgment over
their creations and sending them on their way or moving them up to the
next event.
The episode I watched was the last one of the season. I had watched
two or three others of the season and watched this tall Swiss guy who wore only white clothes and had splashes of white coloring on
his nose in front of his eyes and tended to wear fingernail polish
work his way through to where he won. His winning design was a pants-suit sort of deal where the rear end of the model wearing his clothes
was bare. A naked butt!
Some of his other clothing designs included upside down pants that
were worn as a dress, a coat fashioned in such a way that it just
looked wrong, and other things.
I see his winning as a symptom and not a problem. Our society is
going through a time of odd things where what was unheard of and
uncouth before is now pushed into the spotlight and celebrated. The
further outside of the box you can go, the better it is!
My wife and I talked about it afterwards. Neither of us are going to
be in a rush to go and see his store on Amazon, and I don't see is
ever going to a party where his fashion designs would be purchased and
worn let alone celebrated.
And that's okay.
