Unethical
Unethical (Adjective) base: not adhering to ethical or moral principles.I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is for dresses that costs thousands and thousands of dollars, but apparently, Sarah Jessica Parker wore a dress to a SaTC premiere the other day, only to learn afterwards that it'd also been worn by some woman named Lauren Santo Domingo and, before that, by Lindsay Lohan, revelations that elicited had SJP whinnying:
It's just unethical and disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again.I don't know a lot about the fashion world, but out here, in the real world where people work for a fucking living, it's not all that uncommon to wear a dress more than once. In fact, it's customary to wear something until a) it no longer fits your fat ass, or b) it's threadbare and begins to fall apart. But, I suppose, in the bizzaro fashion world, it must be unethical to actually make use of fabric more than once -- and apparently, the more you pay for it, the least often it should be worn. But I do appreciate that SJP, in real life, is as big a vapid, shallow twit as her SaTC character.
I just hope to God no one wore this hat before SJP.
I know that this is a really stupid point to argue but she's right. Yes, it's frivolous, but the designer-celebrity relationship is symbiotic: the designer makes his name by being attached to a celebrity and the celebrity is supposed to be guaranteed a unique piece for her special event. And though this story doesn't mention it, apparently the designer had told SJP the dress had never been worn; given the understanding that the designers and celebrities have, her reaction (not outrage, just annoyance) is appropriate. And as a little endnote, SJP is notorious for being a spendthrift; her son often wears hand-me-downs from his cousins because she doesn't believe in being wasteful. So, yeah, only wearing an incredibly expensive dress once is wasteful, but that situation is so far removed from the real world that it's pointless to compare the two. In the real world, that's not her attitude at all.
Eh, I think you're taking SJP's words a bit out of context. According to the NYtimes source (http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/where-have-i-seen-that-dress-before/#more-222):
"“In the big picture, this is not important, but there is a relationship between the entertainment industry and fashion,” Parker said [...]Parker says she remarked to Theyskens during the fitting that she was surprised the dress hadn’t been worn before. He assured her it hadn’t. [...] “I just wish it had been handled differently and they had been straight about it.”"
She understands the big picture, and her problem was more that the designer lied to her, or withheld the truth. You don't need to like SJP (I don't care for her much at all), but the event was a huge deal in her career, and as a client, she has a right to know the truth about what she's wearing - and thus advertising.
If you're interested, Project Rungay wrote a pretty good piece on the subject: http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2008/06/dont-piss-off-fashionista-darlings.html
Did she even pay for that dress or was it a "gift" made by the designer?