priceless and true

Design and Fashion infiltrates.

This dastardly duo are the all-powerful, all-consuming Oz The Greats, with their spindly fibers osmotically penetrating through light and airwaves, physically and subliminally, into the very subconscious of our essential "individualism".

They define us. They define our future and our past.

Queen Bee Miranda, in The Devil Wears Prada, summates perfectly;

 Miranda Priestly;
[Miranda and some assistants are deciding between two similar belts for an outfit. Andy sniggers because she thinks they look exactly the same] Something funny?

Andy Sachs;
No. No, no. Nothing's... You know, it's just that both those belts look exactly the same to me. You know, I'm still learning about all this stuff and, uh... 

 Miranda Priestly;
'This... stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also  blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff. 

Those ever-trickling raindrops that form the puddles that forms the pond that forms the river that forms the sea.

Love it! Especially Meryl Streep's rendition! Truly amazing!!

and so true, to boot!