You’ve probably already seen that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rocked up at the Met Gala – where individual tickets are $35,000 (£20,000) and tables start at $200,000 (£150,000) – wearing a white dress saying in big red letters TAX THE RICH. It’s what the Clash called ‘turning rebellion into money’. Not one dollar in tax from the rich is going to be gained from this gesture — fashion can absorb anything and turn it into a trivial trend.
Garments with words on are always monstrous. I think of the immortal words of Fran Lebowitz: ‘If people don’t want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?’
Top of my hate list were those Katharine Hamnett monstrosities, with CHOOSE LIFE and 58% DON’T WANT PERSHING in letters a mile high. Imagine my glee when my husband’s mate got to know her and we were asked over for ‘supper’.
Lewis Hamilton, no doubt to signal that he is not just a hyper-privileged multi-millionaire, showed his solidarity with the non-binaries
‘The young poor dress so much better than the young rich,’ she drawled at one point.
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