The Galliano Debacle: A Fashion Fractal of How Language Fails Us
source: http://www.thefashioncult.com/2011/02/the-galliano-debacle-a-fashion-fractal-of-how-language...
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In our modern, “civilized” world we prize language very much. We huddle around our tribal/national tongues with pride and, sometimes, savage protection. We use assessments of language to categorize, to separate, to marginalize, to reward. It’s all very important to us and yet language has time and time again been an utter failure on a mass scale.
As you know, I tend to see things through fashion goggles, so the case of designer John Galliano’s alleged anti-Semitic tirade is an acute illustration of my above assertion. First, the major controversy is not that the designer was drunk in public (he was just over the legal limit) or even that there was, reportedly, some hair pulling. The big kerfuffle is over the alleged verbal insults. So violence and chemical indulgence are apparently no big deal. But for goodness sakes don’t call people names!
Continued at http://www.thefashioncult.com/2011/02/the-galliano-debacle-a-fashion-fractal-of-...
As you know, I tend to see things through fashion goggles, so the case of designer John Galliano’s alleged anti-Semitic tirade is an acute illustration of my above assertion. First, the major controversy is not that the designer was drunk in public (he was just over the legal limit) or even that there was, reportedly, some hair pulling. The big kerfuffle is over the alleged verbal insults. So violence and chemical indulgence are apparently no big deal. But for goodness sakes don’t call people names!
Continued at http://www.thefashioncult.com/2011/02/the-galliano-debacle-a-fashion-fractal-of-...
