Word: fashionization
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Think Boston Red Sox shirts and cargo shorts are the extent of Bostonians’ fashion sense? Has seeing the same American Apparel dress on every Harvard girl got you jaded? Wondering where the beautiful people in Boston have gone (or, better yet, if they even exist)? Well, believe it or not, Boston has actually spent the last two weeks celebrating its very own, albeit less glamorous, version of Fashion Week...
Though we aren’t exactly on the heels of New York, Paris, or Milan (they are five-inch stilettos after all), fashion experts around Boston contend that this is not the goal of fashion week. "I think the future of Boston Fashion Week is to be Boston Fashion Week," says Jay Calderin, who founded the event...
Surveying the scene at the Daniela Corte fashion show Friday night, it becomes readily apparent that we’re not in New York any more. The "list" is a collection of Daniela’s ardent supporters rather than a weapon of mass humiliation; the models look like your really stunning next door neighbor rather than a really stunning display of bones; and the fashion crowd even includes a group of pre-teens pouting for their mom’s camera...
...best thing about these local pros, besides the fact that they can rock a Red Sox hat by day and designer dresses by night, is that they recognize our large contribution to Boston’s fashion street cred. Meghan A. Mills, co-owner of Serenella, a Newbury boutique, loves watching college kids come into her store. "They’re trendy—less hipster than New York. They step it up…I’m sort of jealous," laments the Bryant University graduate who remembers Doc Martens being all the rage around the time...
Poorer nations simply do not have the robust health infrastructures necessary to deal with massive outbreaks, even if they are anticipated in advance. When any epidemic looms on the horizon, the first priority should be to treat the disease in a systemic fashion that beats it into submission from all fronts, not just those in the first world. In a globalized world, this should be the rule for treating health threats, not the exception. The efforts made so far are a good start and demonstrate good intentions on the part of wealthy nations, but good intentions alone don?...