Priceless

~ Laura

From the Times fashion show for academics:

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Christian Louboutin shoes – $575
Michael Kors bolero – $1,595
Dries Van Noten fur collar – $500 ?
Peter Som dress $1,295
Gucci watch $1,650
Tommy Hilfiger camel’s-hair coat – $500?

total – $6115.  Or two adjunct professors.

Published by Laura

12 thoughts on “Priceless”

  1. The fur-trimmed bolero unfortunately screams “bag lady.” The next guy looks like he’s answering a casting call for a musical version of the Paper Chase (although it also brings to mind Siegfried from All Creatures Great and Small). #4 weirdly combines slightly too much clavicle with droopy and funereally hued clothing. Minus a few accessories, photo #5 looks like a heroine of the French Resistance, or an extra from Enigma. #6 looks like he’s camouflaged for Holstein cow hunting season. #7 is not wearing socks, and seems to be wearing a cardigan that formerly belonged to some deceased female relative, a la Norman Bates.

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  4. I found that pictorial on the far end of creepiness for NYT magazine pictorials, which I almost always find far on the end of creepiness in general. Who are these people?

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  5. To be fair, I find professors in conventional business attire off-putting. A professor shouldn’t be too sleek and stylish. The thing to aim for is a slight (almost undetectable) hint of the scruffy or Bohemian (scruffy for men, Bohemian for women–whatever you do, don’t reverse it).

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  6. “A professor shouldn’t be too sleek and stylish.”
    Ahh, see, since #4 is a woman physicist at Harvard, I liked that she looked sleek and stylish, and was breaking stereotypes. Of course, we have no reason to believe that actually is her style, ’cause, really, who are these people.

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  8. “I found that pictorial on the far end of creepiness for NYT magazine pictorials, which I almost always find far on the end of creepiness in general. Who are these people?”
    They’re the ones not quite weird or obsessive enough to be in the pictorials for the FT’s How to Spend It…

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  9. Here’s another fashion hint (for the guys):
    Don’t ever wear a visibly new article of clothing. Lend it out and then start wearing it again once it has a patina. This especially applies to leather bags. If it looks too new, drag it around a concrete floor and kick it a few times.

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  10. I liked Willard Spiegelman (#2) because, dammit, he looked professorial. If you’re not dressing in a professorial manner, then at the very least, don’t advertise yourself as being worth looking at just because you’re a professor. No, you’ll just be another 40 or 50 or 60-something in atrociously and unustifiably expensive clothes.
    This is from a man who pratically always wears an old tie and jacket to class, so whatever that’s worth.

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  11. 2 and 7 both worked for me. Taussig looked almost exactly the way I pictured him. But it is pretty weird that a guy who wrote a book about commodity fetishism is in a fashion spread.

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  12. This is pretty priceless, from one of John Cole’s commenters:
    “I’m still in shock over how terrible the Palin/Couric interview was. “Train wreck” is being charitable – it was more like a train derailing on a bridge, tumbling a thousand feet into a canyon and landing on a pile of old dynamite and gas drums. And then a jumbo jet crashed into the flaming wreckage. Followed by an earthquake that caused the whole mess to slide off a cliff into the sea, where the few miraculous survivors were eaten by sharks.”
    I hope I’d be laughing even if it had been said about the side I support…

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