Fashion critic Cathy Horyn, right, talked about the changing worlds of fashion and journalism with Nancy Troy, professor and chair of art and art history at Stanford.
Cathy Horyn began as an AP copy girl in Chicago; now she's one of the world's leading fashion critics. But with globalization, Twitter feeds and live streaming, "The system is overloaded," she says. BY CYNTHIA HAVEN For a fashion critic sitting by the catwalk, there are no crib sheets, no introductory notes, no labels, no explanatory context for the clothes the models are wearing as they pass by - it's the visual equivalent of a cold call each time. Nonetheless, you have to file a story, and quickly. That's the world of Cathy Horyn, fashion critic of the New York Times for over a decade, and the blogger behind " On the Runway." She came to tell Stanford about her world and "the basic archaeology of clothes" in a conversation with Nancy Troy, professor and chair of art and art history at Stanford and author of Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion . "You have to be a good observer. Have to use your eyes.
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