Battle of the Sexes
by Wendy at February 20, 2007, 1:53 PM
Unless they enjoy cross-dressing, many male designers have quite literally not walked in the shoes (or dresses) they design. The International Herald Tribune's Suzy Menkes believes this allows male designers to have a "larger vision," leaving women with the more practical task of making clothes we can wear. "It is utterly inexcusable for Costa to cut skirts and dresses so narrow at the hem that they hinder a woman's ability to walk," fumed Robin Givhan of the Washington Post, critiquing the Calvin Klein show, "Any pair of pants that is wide through the thighs and narrower at the ankles creates the illusion that the wearer has hips like the side of a barn, which, in case any designer is wondering, is not a look to which most women aspire."
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