Fashion Icon?

Two things I never thought I would see together are Mary Kate Olsen and the term fashion icon. Apparently someone must think she is because in an interview she recently gave she was asked what its like to be such a respected fashion icon throughout the world. Umm. Mary Kate doesn't even usually wear clothes. She usually just grabs the first piece of fabric she sees in the morning, grabs her cigarettes, coffee and ten pound sunglasses and heads for the door. I don't think of her as having anything positive to do with fashion.

Not so according to the interviewer who must have got her training at People or by Larry King. According to the interviewer, girls all over the world have rushed to copy every bit of Mary Kate's style and anxiously await to see what she is going to wear next. Is she sure she has the right person? Does anyone you know scan US and People just hoping to see what Mary Kate is wearing and then rushing out to their dumpster to see if someone threw it away.

Here is what Olsen had to say about the whole icon thing. "For me it was laziness. I wore my pyjamas and threw on whatever was warm enough. It still amazes me. It's just layers and it doesn't make any sense to me at all."

So how come if Mary Kate knows that her being a fashion icon is a bunch of crap, the interviewer doesn't. Even after Mary Kate says it doesn't make any sense she asked where Mary Kate got her ideas and her inspiration and totally ignored the fact that Mary Kate just said she doesn't have a style except for laziness. She is like the Adam Sandler of the female persuasion when it comes to clothes. Sandler always wears t-shirts and shorts. He's lazy and doesn't care, but I don't see people running to him and calling him a fashion icon so what makes it different for Mary Kate?