Bexit: Did Fahion Predict
Politics?
Caricature: Joel de Veyra 2016
real terms. Britain will continue to
trade with Europe. Britain will continue
to flirt idly with the rest of the world
like some geopolitical Mrs Robinson
(“imagine how beautiful we used to
be…”). And kids will continue to
complain. They love it. Vague anger in
the direction of things they don’t truly
understand is the nectar on which the
young grow strong and bluff. And if
they don’t grow strong and bluff then
who is going to run the Bank of
England, or for that matter the House
of Commons, in thirty years’ time?
Foreigners? No one? Someone
sensible…?! No thank you!
In all likelihood the world will look
substantially the same ater the UK
leaves the EU as it did before. A few
more people will have a bit more
paperwork to worry about, and the
quality of our groceries will go down as
prices go up. But who cares? No one
really likes grapefruit anyway. What
really matters is what this decision will
do to the absolute level of beauty in
the universe, and of course the fashion
industry is where 93.2% of all beauty
originates. So what effect will Brexit
have on fashion?
I think the biggest effect will be
displayed not through economics, but
through the attitudes of the young.
Whether rightly or wrongly, the more
they feel put-upon, cheated, betrayed
by the world and abandoned to sob
into their Class II strawberries and
single cream, the less the young will
feel inclined to burst through vibrant
barriers in terms of their Aussehen, the
less joie de vivre they will want to
display in their choice of couture. In
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