Pope Francis holding up a mirror to fashion?

A book doing the rounds in France is causing a stir in fashion circles (https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/sep/02/academic-exposing-ugly-reality-high-fashion-giulia-mensitieri).   We have to hope that anthropologist Giulia Mensitieri’s book makes it into English (if not, I’ll give it a crack in the original and try to give my take on it).  Happily, the account in The Guardian is full…