Marc Jacobs's recent comment, "A dumb bag on a cool girl is a cool bag," may be more telling than he realized: If the Seventh on Sixth Fall 2005 shows were any indication, the still waters separating cool and dumb, hip and dorky have never been murkier. After all, if Jacobs is right—if it is in fact up to the coolest among us to figure out how to combine flea market finds, cheap chain store stuff, and Century 21 retreads in our own inimitable, ironic ways, then what are... More >>>