Celebrities as Designers, Really now!

I decided to write this blog because I know once I head back to the classroom, someone is going to tell me that the best designer line comes from one of the celebrities that I am going to mention below. As you read this please think about it in this way "Do you see any one of these celebrites being the next Chanel, Yves St.Laurent, Dior, Jean Paul Gaulthier or even in todays standards of greatness Marc Jocobs.

So here's the list.. In not particular order of bad or bad.

Heidi Klum, paris and Nikki Hilton, Haden Panatere, Lauren Conrad, Nicole Ricci, Gwen Stephani, Jessica Simpson, JLo, Pamela Anderson, Elizabeth Hurly, Reba McIntyre, Christy Turlington, Elle McPherson, jaclyn Smith, Amanda Bynes, kane West, JayZ, Sean Combs, SnoopDOg, Nelly, Eminen, Justin T, Pharrell Williams, Rachel Zoe, Victoria Beckham, Beyonce, Bono, MaryKate and Ashley, Miley Cyrus and the newly announce Katie Holmes(hopefully Tom won't jump up and down over this)

So here's the list and quite honestly although they may be talented on stage, in the fitting room that I question. But I am not writing just about that, this is what I really want you to think about, think about all of the students who are trying so hard to pay their way through design school, who are working 2 to 3 jobs just to get through. Think about the ones who are not fortunate enough to go to school for lack of funding. Think about the students who do hours and hours of internships at famous design showrooms for free and are turned away once the commitment is done. Think about the graduates who go door to door looking for someone just to take a look at their portfolio, only be to be told they don't have a vision or get more experience. I want you to think about them everytime you see a new celebrity who has a ton of money, no education, no internships, so student loans decide because they are bored or because they want their name on something go out with their millions and decide they are a designer.

That is what I want you to think about.

I would rather buy a struggling designers goods than make a celebrity richer than they already are. And shame on the industry for allowing this. Shame on them for turning their backs on the world in which they came from. Shame Shame Shame.