Pret-a-Porter, the fashion world is venal, backstabbing and manipulative; in Zoolander, fashion models are outrageously stupid and narcissistic, with pouting clotheshorse Derek Zoolander obsessed with founding the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good, and failing to understand that the architectural model isn’t the real thing. (“What is this?
A centre for ANTS? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read when they CAN’T EVEN FIT INSIDE THE BUILDING?”) Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno is about a fashion journalist who is grotesquely self-obsessed.
Even sympathetic movies, such as the ill-fated Sex and the City outings, make fashion look meretricious. Fashion, it seems, is good for a laugh or a mocking or sorrowing.
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