Today Vanity Fair released its 69th style issue, which included a pathetic attempt at an International Best-Dressed List, which mostly entails jerking off the rich, famous, and royal. Then, showing how very out of touch the publication is, they included two students on the list who looked more like Goldman Sachs bankers than college students.
The Best-Dressed List features characters like H.S.H. PRINCE HEINRICH VON UND ZU FÜRSTENBERG, who describes his style as “timeless,” though mostly he resembles someone stuck in A Passage to India; KATHERINE ROSS, who seems to have attempted to compensate for the loss of the front of her dress’s skirt by spattering herself with buttons; and COUNT MANFREDI DELLA GHERARDESCA, a wannabe medieval courtier.
One of Vanity Fair’s few proper delegations to the International Best-Dressed was the fashionable pair PIETRO and ANDREA CLEMENTE, students at Juilliard and Columbia. Their photo in the magazine spread managed to crush any semblance of real fashion appropriate to student life. It shows the two brothers walking through a door in matching tailored suits and dress shoes, since this apparently is representative of college fashion.
Their recent appearance in Paper Magazine showed them looking as though they might actually belong on a campus, dressing their age in graphic T-shirts, loose jackets, and killer sneakers. At that, they were almost over-dressed for a college campus, the dress code of which normally resembles that of a halfway home. Hasn't college style always been encapsulated by scruff, bedhead, sweatshirts, and dark undereye circles from studying/partying? So just as Barbara Bush told kids to "say no to drugs," I say no to Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed List.

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