{"id":22710,"date":"2013-01-17T08:31:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=22710"},"modified":"2013-01-17T08:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T16:42:59","slug":"hurricane-sandy-was-not-fashionable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/hurricane-sandy-was-not-fashionable","title":{"rendered":"Natural Disasters: Not a Fashion Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many New Jersey and New York residents* (more on that later) were at best temporarily displaced by Hurricane Sandy, and at worst still struggling months later after their homes or businesses were completely destroyed. Entire waterside and low lying neighborhoods remain torn apart, months after record high water levels have receded. So months later, a bit of awareness could be helpful in reminding people, like the congressmen who voted against giving federal aid money to hard hit states, that just because the storm’s fallen from the front page, the need hasn’t gone away.<\/p>\n
Vogue<\/em>‘s Fashion for Sandy Relief auction in partnership with the CFDA raised $1.7 million for the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, so their hearts (and wallets) are mostly in the right place, but the entire concept is not. Sticking a model in luxury clothes with people whose photoshoot hours could have been better utilized restoring utilities (ahem, ConEd) or otherwise helping people cope with the fallout from the storm comes off as not well thought through at best and completely tone deaf at worst.<\/p>\n