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MODECollective was created as a resource for young designers, students and fashion enthusiasts entering the professional fashion world.

The goal of this blog is to create an environment where questions, concerns, advice and fashion news and history can be shared in order to educate, mentor and showcase the talent that will lead the next generation of the fashion industry.



Tuesday, March 8, 2011

"High Fascism"-An Opinion Piece from The New York Times

Many have covered the story of John Galliano's anti-Semitic rant but on March 6th, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Rhonda Garelick, a professor of English and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The opinion piece briefly grazes over a darker side of the history of french fashion during Nazi occupation and the standards of beauty that developed as a result. This opinion in no way excuses the behavior of Galliano nor any type of anti-Semitic thought but the opinion piece is polemic and challenges us to think.

High Faschism- by Rhonda Garelick

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