Friday, September 30, 2011

The Sartorialist vs. The Style Rookie

What I fear most turns out to be true: The Sartorialist is a pompous prick.  The guy can't write and can't even use the ellipsis without looking clumsy. Basically he is a semi-illiterate.  But that's OKAY.  What is not OKAY, to me,  is his total arrogance and lack of good grace to acknowledge the success of a 15-year old.   Mr. Schuman is intensely original and hard working.  Like what Woody Allen says, being there is half of the success (actually it's more than half, it is eighty percent, "Eighty percent of success is showing up"); I give him that: for being there to take the pictures.  Other than that, he really doesn't have a lot up there photographically speaking; look at his editorial works or ad campaigns, the pictures look stunningly boring and aesthetically banal.  For him to pick on a 15-year old, I guess that just reflects pretty poorly on his part.  And to brag about how much money he makes from AA with that tone, that is just pure class.  If anybody reads anything Miss Gevinson has written, one (OKAY, at least me and myself) has to agree that she is original, smart and sharp for her age or any age for that matter.  And for him to slam her or her success being a conspiracy between her and the print media is just pure libel or extremely ill informed.  I mean The New Yorker has a profile on Miss Gevinson, all seven web pages for what is worth and they don't have one on Mr. Schuman the last I checked.

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