Fashion writing is so weird

Frank Zappa once described rock journalism as "people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." But fashion journalism is way, way worse. Based on my untutored (but still embarrassingly obsessive) reading of our nation's style pages, it seems to me that fashion reporters are encouraged to adopt a very strong, individual voice in their writing. Which would be great, if their voices weren't saying things like this:

"One good place to check out the number of playful tools for sartorial self-expression in a postfeminist era is the trillion little blogs on MySpace.com." (NYT)

You know those kids that were so good at bullshitting away an hour and a half in your sociology seminar back in college? Fashion writers. Fashion writers, all.