Erin Wasson On Homeless Chic Reloaded

Remember that offending declaration about homeless people and their fashion sense made by Erin Wasson?

Well, that somehow made the tour of the Internet so Erin was forced to pause her design/fashion usual “you know” rant and explain what she actually meant.

I have actually talked to these homeless people. I’ve had conversations with them. It’s a choice that they’ve made. They don’t want to have a job. They enjoy being completely free. I’ll see people on the beach and aesthetically, they look awesome, and because it’s so uncontrived and uninhibited. I got a lot of heat for that. It wasn’t that I was like ‘Oh yeah, homeless people are so cool; it’s so cool to see people that are homeless looking cool.’ It’s the lack of complexity in the way that they dress and the fact that there’s no thought behind it whatsoever that’s so righteous. You know?

Erin, darling, there really was no need to jump out of the frying-pan into the fire! You know? (via 1, 2, 3)