Death To Birkenstocks!

When I read the title ‘Sandals That Are So Ugly They’re Chic: Fashion Embraces Flat, Birkenstock-Style Sandals’ in last Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, I gasped. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine Birkenstocks would be considered high-fashion. I have always hated Birkenstocks and always will. Growing up only hippes and Dead Heads wore them. …

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John Galliano Gets Undecorated: Stripped of His Legion of Honor Award

John Galliano, who was decorated as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor at the Élysée Palace in 2010, has been stripped of the merit award. The revocation was recently published by France’s official journal by decree of the President François Hollande as a consequence of Galliano’s conviction last year for his racist and anti-Semitic …

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