What do you get when a critic critiques a fellow critic? Enter the comebacking Cathy Horyn.
In a Business of Fashion exclusive excerpt of her long-read interview in SYSTEM magazine, Ms. Horyn, who retired from New York Times's post as chief fashion authority but has returned as critic-at-large in New York magazine's The CUT, expresses her thoughts, among the state of the fashion industry, about former International Herald Tribune journalist and now Vogue International editor-at-large Ms. Menkes, when asked by writer Jonathan Wingfield,
"So you consider all the branding fanfare as a negative distraction?"
Her frank reply:
"I remember Suzy Menkes writing about this in the [International] Herald Tribune about five years ago. She was going on about branding this and branding that; of course, she was absolutely right, that did happen, and the importance of branding has become key. But then it started becoming a part of her writing, there was just too much of an embrace of that language and the methodology that those companies were using. And I thought, ‘Wait a minute, Suzy, why are you working for these people? You work for a newspaper and you’re a critic, please try and stay somewhat independent of that thinking.’ Suzy won’t like me saying that, she’ll say that I’m a… well, she will say what she will say. I mean, people could say that I’m being a Pollyanna about this, but it’s had a terrible influence, I find it polluting."
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