“While artists often spend long periods in the doldrums, producing nothing new or prodding listlessly over the same tired ground, the fashion industry just gets on with its job. Season after season, year after year, designers, photographers and models churn out clothes, images, looks. We may not like everything they do, and what most of us wear may only be very distantly related to the dresses, coats, suits and often quite clearly idiotic assemblages of random fabrics that whiz purposefully down the catwalks, but the effect is a continual refreshing of our collective visual field with new images of aspiration and desire.”