Even if you consider this New York Fashion Week the “most boring” in recent memory, it still went on, as scheduled, without a hitch. Sequined corsets, tufted cropped coats, billowing capes and beaded heels all paraded down runways for the eyes and iPhones of primped guests, despite the fact that, all around us, the state of American politics continues to feel as chaotic and rickety as ever under the Trump administration . Bodily autonomy remains under attack, gun violence is rampant ( political violence , too), our health care system is riddled with mistrust and misinformation, ICE and border patrol are cracking down indiscriminately on tourists and citizens alike, and U.S. tax dollars are helping fund what the U.N. has declared as a genocide in Gaza.
That stark dichotom