To be fair to the writer, here is the article I plundered for sub this morning re fahion writing.......is actually a much better rip-off of fashion writing than I could manage.....the industry sending itself up;
http://www.booknoise.net/johnseabrook/stories/design/menkes/
I once, many years ago, having read that Suzy was the finest journalist ever, bought a copy of the Times one saturday which promised her latest offering hot from the cat-walk....
despite carefully reading and rereading it through several times, I could not glean a single fact from it or even an opion that made any sense...........
didn't realise then that that was the whole point of the exercise.....lots of name checks to keep the advertisers and fashion bods happy as they were couched in that language that lets idiots feel that they are Ab Fab.....
The sophistication being just that;
A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone