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The Grey Gardens revival and the rise of Amy Winehouse have got me thinkin' about the intimate relationship between crazy people and fashion

by Simon Doonan
May 14, 2008

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Does one's level of stylishness increase as one goes off one's trolley?

John Waters, film director and my own personal Erma Bombeck, has always philosophized that breaking the law can make people more beautiful. The more crimes a person commits, so goes the Waters hypothesis, the more beautiful that person becomes. I'm starting to wonder if there might not be a similar relationship between madness and fashion. Don't recoil in horror: We've all had the experience of spotting a disheveled homeless person staggering toward us on West Broadway only to realize, on closer inspection, that the individual in question is our old artist/gallery owner pal who is attired, as per usual, in Comme Des Garçons.

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