A frayed plaid fabric patch is held by a large safety pin on a rust-streaked blue metal locker door.

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Mugatu

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.

— Zoolander • 2001

Behind the line

What it means

Our 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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