Suzy Menkes: That’s it FOREVER
This morning I came across an interesting and relevant video interview with fashion editor Suzy Menkes. If you you’re asking yourself, “who is Suzy Menkes,” here is my Suzy Menkes for Dummies:
Suzy Menkes
- Fashion editor for the International Herald Tribune
- Contributing editor to select prime fashion rags
- Attends over six hundred fashion shows a year
- Very influential
- British
- Known for her trademark pompadour hairstyle
- Recently appeared as one of the finale judges on Project Runway
- Known for her “tell-it-like-it-is” reporting. Example: when writing about Jil Sander’s below-the-knee dresses,
looked like something a woman who had lost her waist would choose from a mail-order catalogue.
or on Versace,
If you want a pick-me-up fashion cocktail of color in a tutti-frutti print, gaudy suede Puss-in-Boots and look-at-me accessories, this show was caricatural Versace.
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OK, you get the picture…the ‘ol gal knows what she’s talking about and people in the industry take heed. So this morning when I came across her interview and her thoughts on fast-paced publishing / blogging, I took note – serious note. Here is what the doyen says:
When the world changed, when fashion changed, and instead of becoming a monologue it became a conversation.
Instead of it being something that which was received, there is now a rapport. People can make comments on shows instantly. They can exchange views with other people. Listen, you can go into a shop and snap yourself on your phone wearing something and send it to your boyfriend and say “hey do you like this?”
You know, everything now is integrated and there’s a backwards and forewords now and that is never going to stop…Now that that has started – that’s it forever.
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I think she pegged the nail on the head. That’s it forever.
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Suzy Menkes Judging Project Runway
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