> > > >From today's San Francisco
Chronicle:
> "British designer Alexander McQueen showed sweaters emblazoned with
> photographic images of the Vietnam War at recent Fashion Week festivities
> in Manhattan. 'It gives a hard edge to the cashmere,' the designer told
> New York magazine."
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> This strikes me as a spectacular example of the commercialization of images
> of the war. John Baky has a great collection ways in which images of the
> war are used to market items like hunting knives, clocks, and so forth, but
> this moves images of the war into high fashion. The irony of a war fought
> largely by working class Americans against Vietnamese peasants being used
> by a haute couture designer is pretty great.
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> Renny Christopher
> rchristo@toto.csustan.edu
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