Susan Scafidi, founder of Fordham’s Fashion Law Institute, wrote an op-ed in Racked about what the fashion industry can learn from “Je suis Charlie.”
Fashion is not Charlie. Runway shows may celebrate aesthetic expression, physical freedom, evolving standards of beauty, or even gender fluidity, but few take deliberate aim at cultural oppression, much less terrorism. As Helen Mirren’s makeshift fountain pen brooch at the Golden Globes reminds us, however, fashion is a potentially powerful conduit for free speech.
Read Scafidi’s entire op-ed here.