October, 4th, 2016

BAD #BDSM
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Fashion month is over.

In 2013, I had to redraft a storyline for my former boss @AleCalascibetta because #LauraGuillermin, head PR @Cerruti1881 was displeased with my questions. They lacked research. I did my research. I was not abiding to her way for guiding the story in the direction she wanted. “I was lacking clarity”. My boss caved in. I did not. I never wrote that story and my boss kept me at distance. In fact, I never wrote again for #MaxItalia These are the political humdrums, we, #independant fashion journalist-servants to readers and penmanship, have to endure for writing an informed, inquisitive and investigative piece. Fashion houses and fashion publishers don’t welcome such reporting. It steers them away from controlling image, narrative and ultimately you, slave buyers, not readers. Slaves. Yes. BDSM is everywhere today, without frankly, any gusto. It’s imposed never suggested to us. We had #DianaVreeland. We had #EdmondeCharlesRoux. Inflexible taste cultured divas shaping + challenging our thinking with sure fashion diktats: sound fears, strict ethics, safe wildnesses. Good BDSM. Who do you we have today? Consider the bloggers glow blow by fashion editors this week. Bad BDSM. The former category, in its majority, don’t know how to properly articulate prestige or to sew a sentence in sheer prose. The latter don’t know how to properly break from editorial tyranny. Bad BDSM.

Fashion reporting has become nothing but a stock [sensationalist] exchange: buzzy, mundane and celebrity @KimKardashianWest centric. Pick your stock.

My kind of penmanship has low stock. On the surface. Not that I am over intellectualizing fashion to my own idea of good BDSM, but the readers read us to shape style and surrender. They own that decision to submit, not the contrary. We, the fashion writing community at-large, are acting like a bad dominant, abusing their trust and dismissing their intelligence. By negligence. By amateurism. By opportunism. In life, democracy. In arts, aristocracy. Readers, buyers adhere but we are far from entitled to impose on them.
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(To be continued part II – GOOD BDSM)
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