Cayce Pollard Fashion: So Awesome You Can’t Even See Her

Fun exploration of Cayce Pollard [the protagonist from William Gibson's Pattern Recognition] as fashion icon [via No Good For Me]:

Cayce is totally attuned to proportion, line, silhouette — all the subtleties of design that a style sophisticate is keenly aware of. It fits in with Cayce’s exquisite sensitivity to the meaning and context of style — what clothes say, what they reveal and hide, the real semiotics of it all…

There’s something so pure about Cayce as a character, something both irresistibly impenetrable yet serenely composed; she’s like looking at water after being surrounded by design pollution all day. She stands for the ultimate rejection of the Fashion Industrial Complex. The absolute commitment of her style and her awareness of it within the larger context of fashion and capitalism make her a grade-A fashion thinker — a real icon, however imaginary.