doree (via barthel):
Nostalgic post on Defamer about MTV stars who never would get on the channel today. The other day Moe told me that Daria isn’t available on DVD, which I can’t believe. Are teenagers no longer disaffected? Hmm. Maybe not. We had Daria, they have My Super Sweet Sixteen. Maybe it’s not a coincidence.
This whole “if it’s not on DVD that’s because it won’t sell” idea is completely bogus. Daria is not on DVD because MTV had all kinds of music rights that did not carry over to home video releases. Just saying.
“ …how does one deal with the more equivocal fashions of social purpose and of concomitant design decision in other sportswear designers, such as Karan, Lauren, and Klein? Neither socioeconomic nor aesthetic-design exegesis alone satisfies in such instances. All too often, the designers that mingle popular dreams and design desires are the ones most frequently ignored, perhaps in the uncertainty of analytical technique. Karan’s definitions of the feminine (and correspondingly, in her menswear of the masculine) and of the body are undeniably a cultural configuration important in our time; Lauren’s evocative interpretation of fashion’s memories is as salient to our late-century aspirations as it is saleable; and Klein’s plain luxuries in sportswear are rooted in the American ethos; yet all such notions are left unexamined while nonetheless in the room, the women come and go, talking of Donna, Ralph, Calvin, and Giorgio.
Richard Martin from “Addressing the Dress” in The Crisis of Criticism (New York: The New Press, 1998).
