This article originally appeared on Vogue Business.
Once upon a time, in the pre-social media age in which television reigned supreme, Joan Rivers used to host Fashion Police on E! Entertainment Television. It was a time . As part of the non-politically correct show (was this the most cancellable show on TV? Hardly, but it had its moments), there was a segment titled Bitch Stole My Look , in which Rivers and her co-hosts would pair up celebrities wearing the same or similar looks and choose a winner. This now feels like an outdated, pre-Me Too relic of the kind of lo-fi entertainment that would prey on women and the way they looked for the sake of. Celebrities and their stylists now work extremely hard to secure exclusive, unique looks — this is the kind of thing that doesn’t happen