Naked Power

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

Some days, I need a silly. And bringing that back to clothing, this article about “Why are Fashion shows filled with unwearable garments? ” by Renaud Petit provides some answers about the strange things worn during a fashion show. The two main takeaways about runway shows: 1. A “runway show that features unwearable garments should be seen as an art exhibition.” 2. “What you see there will later be translated into more wearable things that look similar, true to the runway pieces, made from the same materials and techniques except the overall look will be far less crazy.”

About the author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, with William Faulkner calling him “the father of American literature”. Twain’s novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the “Great American Novel”. He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) and Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner. The novelist Ernest Hemingway claimed that “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.”