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Let me show you Derelicte. It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique.
— Mugatu • Zoolander
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker presents a fashion line as a whole lifestyle modelled on destitute people, praising them as the source of the city's charm. The tone is grandiose and tone-deaf, satirizing a designer who turns other people's hardship into a glamorous, marketable style.
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