Cintra Wilson is as controversial a fashion writer as they come. (She's the one who called J.C. Penny's mannequins obese.) Author of the New York Times' Critical Shopper column, Wilson takes a no-holds-barred approach to the fashion industry as a whole; which is exactly how she approached a recent interview with Elle about the complex industry. "It is a fairly hermetic world that exists in its own froofy bubble," Wilson says. "I think homophobia and sexism may play a role in the trivializing of fashion; I think it is regarded as being something of a feminine ghetto, to the extent that it is tethered to the beauty industrial complex and women’s magazines." But in fact fashion is an inextricable part of all pockets of society. "All of our most immediate feelings about the world we live in are reflected in fashion," says Wilson, citing Simon Doonan's window dressings at Barneys the day after Obama was elected as emblematic of the relationship.
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