Looking Poor is Cool!

I will never consider myself a fashion maven. The only thing I have in common with Derek Zoolander is that I think Will Ferrell and Mugabi look a lot alike.

I sort of feel like a fashion maven, though. Especially nowadays. In my day to day job, working for an advertising distribution company, it is considered a fashion faux pas, unless you're in sales or the higher echelons of management, to dress in a suit and tie or, for women, business wear.

It's typical to throw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, a good, comfortable pair of sneakers, and then get into your Nissan Altima or Toyota Prius or, for some, BMW, and then drive to work. This is Hollywood, after-all, the heart of cool world, and in cool world it's downright frosty to look like a dirty junkie even if you really aren't one.

I haven't seen a photo of Paris Hilton lately, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before she begins to prove her normalcy by dressing like a "normal" person. I guess, to Paris that means hiding the fact that your $200 dollar pair of Diesel jeans are made by Diesel. She can always destroy the logo with a simple, black, magic-marker. The magic-marker process is quite different from what one of my roommates in college used to do. He didn't want to appear poor. So, he'd sew a Guess logo onto his K-mart jeans. Not a bad idea, really, and it seemed to work, although maybe it worked because he always kept his ass covered by these gorgeous Tommy Hilfiger long sleeve shirts. In any case, at least he was going in a different direction then Paris. At least, he was trying to dress to be cool, not dress to be - - cool. Man, this whole dressing like a junkie thing is confusing me!

I just don't get it, I suppose - - Nicole Ritchie. I bring up Nicole because I did see a picture of her dressed like a junkie, albeit - - a very cool junkie - - and wondered if that was the best look one wanted after getting out of rehab. I mean, is the idea to get caught - - again - - Lindsay Lohan. Of course, I have to bring up Lindsay because she's the ultimate cool junkie. She doesn't just dress the part, it appears that she actually is one, and to me that deserves true respect, baby!

Lindsay understands that to become this generations version of Edie Sedgewick, you've go for at 100 percent! Like a drug-induced bat out of a cave hell of pop culture! Edie was the greatest true junkie who dressed like a cool junkie ever.

I can see Lindsay asking right now, "Who's Edie Sedgewick?"

Oh, well. As papa Williamson always said, "There's no accounting for taste." That's true. Especially when it comes to how a person dresses.