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Terry Richardson and Literary Parties: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

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The Utter Meaninglessness of the Fashion Robin Givhan | “It’s not just some narcissistic photographer with a warped definition of ‘consent.’ It’s inhumane model bookers, self-indulgent designers, greedy stage parents, and other creative types who treat women as something other than sentient, thoughtful individuals. Fashion denounced Richardson. Finally. Sort of. But frankly, it doesn’t much matter. Such egregious behavior may no longer be cool, but it’s still in fashion.”

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