Labor of Fashion

SORRY for being gone so long. I haven't abandoned you. This blog is admittedly my obsession, and I've missed you dearly. I'll fill you guys in on why I've been M.I.A in just a moment... now lets talk about fashion, shall we?

Take a second to reflect on what you're wearing. Who made the clothing on your back? The lovely shoes on your feet? Some of you may have answered Marc Jacobs or even Route 66, but you're wrong.

Chances are you're clothing was made by a factory laborer working under abject conditions in a third world country, and that worker could possibly may have been a child.

Many of these workers make only pennies a day, making the clothing that we so desperately lust after, including high profile lines such as Kate Moss's TopShop collection. "The claims reported by some media said that workers (for Kate Moss's line) in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were promised high wages and that they were paid less than five pounds a day for working 12 hours a day, which is to say, 40 percent less than the average wages in the region."

I'm not trying to give you buyers guilt or come back on a sour note, but this is a very important issue that I've been thinking about, and if you'd like to read a little more on this, check out this article I just came across titled The Dirty Laundry of Fashion that delves a bit into the questioning of aesthetics versus suffering, and poses the question. Do you stand by what you wear? Something to ponder...

Back to my delayed blogging reality... I've been busy packing up my things, and saying my goodbyes to my peeps here in the NYC because I'm moving to L.A. at the end of the month! I'm a bit sad to miss out on New York Fashion Week, and all the great shows, including those I was never really invited to, but managed to sneak past the PR police, and still sit front row. I'll just have to catch one of my favorite up and coming designer Toni Maticevski, online.

I don't have a job lined up yet, so I'll have plenty of time to work on a fresh new layout, and check out the LA fashion scene, especially their thrift shops. It's a new beginning, and I couldn't be more excited to share my journey with you all. Hope you'll stick around to see what I've got in store...

I love you...I love you not!

REMEMBER when I posed the question is Kate Moss becoming a has been? Well this one's getting tough...Kate proved us wrong today by creating a buzz beyond massive, across the pond in London town. Top Shop has been taken over, and the British invasion is about begin. Kate's collection was available online at 11:00pm giving non Brits the chance to scoop up some of Kate's gear. Too many tried to get on the site, and thanks to those bitches, the server is down! I guess I'll just have to wait to get one of those killer floor length skirts.

I actually wanted something. There I said it, I admit it. I logged on, and tried to get my share of the CoKate for Top Shop collection. No luck.

(P.s. In case you haven't noticed, my myspace page is up so send me a little hello!)

Were any of you able to score something? fill us in... I want details.

And more thing: PETE'S IN REHAB AGAIN. Does this bring you right back to loving her not?