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...have a rule list of things you can and can’t do. The all-black rule is for fashion shows and events. It’s like a private school. We don’t want self-expression at our shows. Do you think Martin Margiela wants his PR team to wear Cavalli? I don’t think so. Black is non-descript. You don’t know if it’s GAP or Yohji...
...school tactics of exclusivity, of not letting anyone in, of this great Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. It’s all overkill for fashion houses...
...favorite lines from Doughboy in the 1991 blockbuster movie, “Boyz n the Hood.” For everyone reading this who “don’t know” what’s going on in the inner city school system, what follows is a brief glimpse of the situation based on visits to 8,500 middle school children in five major American cities. The experiences related here demonstrate that no matter how bad you believe the conditions are in inner-city schools…they are far worse...
These are my reflections, generated through individual observation and prolonged discussions with school administration officials both on and off the record. Principals and teachers expressed their desperation, and implored me to tell the world what was going on in the inner-city school system. This is my attempt...
...most heartbreaking element of this situation is that many of the kids who attend these schools are fiercely intelligent, but the school system is slowly eating them alive, and every adult at the schools we visited, including myself, knew it. I use the expression “eating them alive” because that is the best way I know how to describe the situation. The crushing feeling is analogous to how it must feel for a creature to be eaten alive by a python. What makes the prospect so sickening is that the prey is still alive and conscious...