If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for … - Harold Town

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I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh. . . they all came down to [Vetements<br>Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia's studio that night and hung out.

Harold Town

If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.

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