Poverty is a curse, and I am poor as a rat. It was like a bitter pill that I had to swallow, to kiss my Marc Jacobs leather shoes goodbye. Someone bought it on eBay for a song, and it was a tough decision for me to let it go. Marc Jacobs, the sitting Creative Director for Louis Vuitton and fashion's "wonder boy", has been consistently serving highly-successful collections every Fashion Week, whether for LV or for his own lines, Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs.
To console myself, I have to make it up by keeping my Comme Des Garcons by Junya Watanabe. Comme, dubbed as "Hiroshima Chic" and founded by designer Rei Kawakubo in 1973, was among the avant-garde japanese to introduce black as an everday fashion staple. Her much-feted protege, Junya Watanabe, joined Comme Des Garcons in 1984 as a pattern cutter. He presented his first solo collection in 1993 at Paris Fashion Week. and despite the wealth of creativity on display, Watanabe's clothes were a response to more fundamental issues: a practical answer to prevailing conditions and lifestyles. Junya Watanabe is one of the celebrated designers in Paris fashion.
To be fashionable and poor, what a predicament.
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