why fashionistas are beyond parody
”[…] it is very hard to lampoon or portray an industry which provides oxygen, for example, to the executive producer of a fashion show who instructs her minions to calm her down by making dolphin noises; to the fashion editor who pays good money to employ an “absent healer” (a guru type who promises to think positive thoughts about her at an agreed time of the day) and orders room service at her LA hotel by calling her assistant in London; […] vividly remember when one major US magazine publisher put a donations box outside the elevators of its Manhattan offices so that staff could give money and gifts towards relief in wartorn Kosovo. Big mistake. Some girls rummaged through it thinking it was a freebie free-for-all, while one mag donated a pashmina, some lip gloss and an out-of-date movie release guide.”