The Ongoing 'Saga' of Cathy Horyn vs. Rodarte...

I eagerly awaited Cathy Horyn’s review of the Rodarte show, as did many other fashion insiders. And in fact, it was included within today’s The New York Times Fashion Review of the shows, “Cutting to the Bone Without the Angst”...While last season she reduced her coverage to one dismissive paragraph at the end of a column, this time, she at least devoted two paragraphs and it was not much better. In fact, it was worse, because she made it clear that she gave it another chance and still does not ‘get it’. As she put, in trying to figure out “how one should regard the Mulleavy sisters’ strange clothes”, a photographer she encountered after the show “predicted that if we looked at the clothes long enough, over the years, they would grow on us, goling from palatable to acceptable”. Her response is “I don’t want to think of all the things we humans have allowed to grow on us that a firm standard might have prevented.”.......”I don’t think the Mulleavy sisters’ earnest dresses are really in that league.” Period. End of story. Unless of course they change their aesthetic.

– Marilyn Kirschner