• Some critics were not feeling Jeremy Scott‘s first offerings as creative director of Moschino, and it looks like the displeasure has extended to actual McDonald’s employees, who say the yellow-and-red pieces emblazoned with modified versions of the fast food’s famed golden arches is an insult to their profession. “Knowing someone will pay $1,000 for clothing inspired by McDonald’s workers who earn minimum wage is a mockery,” former Mickey D’s employee Mia Brusendorff told The Daily Mail. Most people who work at McDonald’s certainly couldn’t afford one of the collection’s $750 sweaters, much less the now sold-out $1,265 red quilted purse. “I know the poor environment a minimum wage employee works in, and for people working in the highly paid fashion world to think it’s ‘trendy’ to wear clothes inspired by the uniforms we put on every day to feed our kids, or to buy a designer bag that is a parody of the meals we serve to earn enough money just to pay our bills; well, it just makes me sad,” she said. “I couldn’t buy one of these Moschino purses even if I wanted to.” Neither could I! As someone who works in the fashion world, I’m wondering where she’s getting her information that most industry people are “highly paid.” I would say many of the people going to, reviewing these shows, and styling the pieces for editorials can’t afford a $1,265-dollar purse either, especially one that doesn’t go with every outfit. One look at this survey on how much fashion industry people get paid would tell her that. While most people aren’t getting paid minimum wage, many of these editors and it-girls get their designer duds for free. So, while I can understand her frustration, it’s not like all fashion folk are rolling in dough–plenty of people in the fashion industry are struggling, many being paid just as much or even less than McDonald’s employees, and they’re still expected to dress like trendy baronesses. But that’s just my opinion. What do you think? (Daily Mail)
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