Wow, this is great! I'm a conservative fashion enthusiast and it's so rare to find fashion views that align with my principles (let alone my political views). Will definitely be checking out your other articles, thanks for sharing!
I completely understand, when my grandfather passed right before the 45th president was elected, my family and I often spoke afterwards about how my grandfather wouldn’t have to witness the spectacle. He had a very strong sense of right and wrong.
i was waiting for your read on all of this after i saw your note yesterday in the substack feed.
i was similarly thinking how strategic the styling and fashion must have been behind the scenes- with so many designers declining to offer or style the trumps and the vance families- but surprising (not fully shocking given their existing clientele) that Oscar De La Renta was the choice designer to wear- the immigrant Dominican American’s namesake and archival designs draping the oligarchs as they proclaim a new “golden age” that eliminates the dna of america: immigration and who is deemed “a real citizen”.
you stated so eloquently the reality that these women are wolves in sheep’s clothing, complicit in enacting fear mongering across the world and regressive, draconian public policy:
“These sartorial selections by Vance and the Trumps softens their cunning, the comparisons they intend to draw and which we relent are tactical, projecting the image not of co-conspirators but of a new era of femininity, or rather a return to a very old one, of one man and one woman united under God, of abortion and childlessness as sin, contemptuous of sin.”
At first I was stunned to see her dress was by Oscar De La Renta, but also the brand had parted so completely with Oscar’s vision that I’d stopped keeping up with them. Certainly profit at any cost is more important to them than brand integrity.
agreed! i also think there’s also an undercurrent we’re seeing with designers. I’m from San Francisco but now live in Texas- and there is a stark difference in who wears what. I regularly see rich republicans women wearing Adam Lippes or Dolce and Gabanna, Oscar De La Renta or Marchesa and Mac Dugall- to where it wasn’t a complete shock. i’m on a tangent but sometimes i wonder if political ideology has a style sensibility tied to it.
The New York equivalent of these women wear Nili Lotan and Donna Karan, their daughters are wearing Leset. You’re absolutely right that political ideology has a style sensibility to it (and who ultimately the money gets funneled to)
Wow, this is great! I'm a conservative fashion enthusiast and it's so rare to find fashion views that align with my principles (let alone my political views). Will definitely be checking out your other articles, thanks for sharing!
Four articles in. Hooked on your writing, voice, and activism in this space
Interesting read however I just can’t look at or read anything to do with any of them or this, even style and fashion which I love.
So glad my mother, who was from Mexico, is so longer alive and thus cannot know what is happening 💔🙏🏽
I completely understand, when my grandfather passed right before the 45th president was elected, my family and I often spoke afterwards about how my grandfather wouldn’t have to witness the spectacle. He had a very strong sense of right and wrong.
To add insult to injury Meta flipped people following on Harris and Biden on Instagram to following Trump and Vance! I had to actively unfollow.
You may want to check your social media accounts.
i was waiting for your read on all of this after i saw your note yesterday in the substack feed.
i was similarly thinking how strategic the styling and fashion must have been behind the scenes- with so many designers declining to offer or style the trumps and the vance families- but surprising (not fully shocking given their existing clientele) that Oscar De La Renta was the choice designer to wear- the immigrant Dominican American’s namesake and archival designs draping the oligarchs as they proclaim a new “golden age” that eliminates the dna of america: immigration and who is deemed “a real citizen”.
you stated so eloquently the reality that these women are wolves in sheep’s clothing, complicit in enacting fear mongering across the world and regressive, draconian public policy:
“These sartorial selections by Vance and the Trumps softens their cunning, the comparisons they intend to draw and which we relent are tactical, projecting the image not of co-conspirators but of a new era of femininity, or rather a return to a very old one, of one man and one woman united under God, of abortion and childlessness as sin, contemptuous of sin.”
At first I was stunned to see her dress was by Oscar De La Renta, but also the brand had parted so completely with Oscar’s vision that I’d stopped keeping up with them. Certainly profit at any cost is more important to them than brand integrity.
agreed! i also think there’s also an undercurrent we’re seeing with designers. I’m from San Francisco but now live in Texas- and there is a stark difference in who wears what. I regularly see rich republicans women wearing Adam Lippes or Dolce and Gabanna, Oscar De La Renta or Marchesa and Mac Dugall- to where it wasn’t a complete shock. i’m on a tangent but sometimes i wonder if political ideology has a style sensibility tied to it.
The New York equivalent of these women wear Nili Lotan and Donna Karan, their daughters are wearing Leset. You’re absolutely right that political ideology has a style sensibility to it (and who ultimately the money gets funneled to)