Fighting the Bitch Brigade
In her first column for Vogue, Suzy Menkes challenges the "ugly face of fashion criticism".
Whether it is Gwyneth Paltrow talking about paparazzi, the Kim and Kanye nuptials or the appearance of Kate (Moss/Middleton), the Twitter stream of catty comments never ends. One of the two Kates was accused of wearing a Virgin air-hostess uniform when she got off the plane to New Zealand; the other Kate, seductive at 40, was supposedly showing every wrinkle from her hard partying decades. Nicole Kidman on the Cannes red carpet was sneered at as looking like "Princess Grace of Botox". And Kim, in her Versailles outfit, was deemed all cleavage and no class.
