As she prepared for her debut runway show at the tents on Friday, Erin Wasson, a model turned designer, seconded Duffty’s view that the professionals could take some tips from the homeless. And she defended remarks she made last year in an interview with Nylon magazine. “The people with the best style for me are the people that are the poorest,” Wasson said then, a remark that generated an online firestorm — and a very funny video parody of her by the actress Julia Stiles.
“I’m not saying let’s glamorize the homeless,” said Wasson, who is often cited by fashion magazines as a style “icon” and a “muse” for Alexander Wang, a designer known for outfitting the kind of women who a couple of minutes ago were revered by fashion as “It” girls.
“It’s not like I’m saying, ‘Oh, God, that’s so inspiring — you got your clothes from a garbage can,”’ Wasson said. What is she saying then? “When I moved down to Venice Beach, I found these people with this amazing mentality, this gypsy mentality — people that you couldn’t label and put in a box,” said the designer, perhaps forgetting that some of those very people live in one.
“I got trashed for it,” Wasson said.
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