Tim Blanks in Vice

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One of our favorite fashion editors, Daryoush Haj-Najafi, over at Vice, interviews one of his favorite fashion writers, Tim Blanks, and asks him a bunch of questions we want to know the answers to too. Like: "Can you explain the fashion journalist’s ability to find the good in everything? I blame the seductive allure of the easily regurgitatable press release. It’s usually easier to be funny or memorable or whatever when you’re being nasty. But I have a bit of a problem with spending five minutes dumping on someone who (one hopes) has put some heart and soul - and at least a day or two - into what they do, even if it’s butt clenchingly dreadful. Do it by omission I say." [Vice]