So yesterday
Talk about potentially short shelf lives. From LA Weekly:
A San Diego native, [Kristine] Johnson [of Johnson Clothing] has always had a thing for shorts. “I don’t know why — I just love ’em.”...
Johnson studied for two years at Fashion Careers of California College, and then started assisting celebrity stylists Arianne Phillips, Marjan Malakpour and others, dressing and touring with Madonna, the Dixie Chicks, Kid Rock and Courtney Love. Attempting to satisfy her own never-ending appetite for shorts, she noticed a void in the marketplace. But the first ones she designed were actually just for her....
A friend of Johnson’s, also a celebrity stylist, asked if she could borrow a pair for a Hilary Duff photo shoot, and sure thing they ended up on the cover of Blender magazine, with the then-16-year-old Disney pinup wearing the shorts with a couple of spiked leather belts and a cut-up Mickey Mouse tee. Duff, obviously feeling the heat of her new punk-rock image, ordered four pairs on the spot. And that’s when Johnson realized, “Ohh, I might have a business here.”
Her boyfriend invested a chunk of change and she went off to NY, samples in hand....But it wasn’t until [Nicole] Richie and [Lindsay] Lohan started wearing Johnson’s shorts that the world really stood up and took notice. Now Mischa Barton, Carmen Electra and the Simpson sisters love them, too....
Johnson’s current line is made up of essentially four basic styles: short-shorts (the Millicient), mid-thigh (the Gertrude), Bermuda length (the Esther) and a sailor-front tap length (the Suella). They’re made from vintage silks, cottons and wools and adorned with vintage buttons. They retail for around $250. Some, like the limited-edition, dead-stock fabric pieces, can run as high as $400....
She insists...that you don’t have to be super skinny to wear them — the most popular size she sells is an 8....
Hold right there. You'll remember that I linked to the following comment from the Infamous Brad (emphasis mine):
If [the Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty"] ads are controversial for any reason, it ought to be this one: that's not what real women look like, either. The web site very carefully doesn't give the models' heights, weights, measurements, body mass indices, or dress sizes. However, when Stacy Nadeau (far right) was being interviewed on Countdown with Keith Olbermann the other night, it was mentioned that she's a size 10. The average American woman, like Marilyn Monroe at the height of her career, is a size 12. If these six women are at (or worse, above) your upper limit for attractive women, and if we assume a bell curve for the statistical distribution of body shape, then you just ruled out somewhere around 2/3 of the women in your species. And if so, I'm very sad for you. And I'm even more sad for the women who get this attitude from you, for whom you're the straw that breaks the camel's back and persuades them. People like you are ruining the species.
And people wonder why Hilary Duff loses weight as she gets older.
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