News is Fashion; Fashion is News.

It never ceases to astound me the way that two worlds can cross paths so much and end up so interbred and interlinked.

And nothing astounds me more than just what I put as my title, news as fashion, and fashion as news. These two subject vary greatly in importance to people, with news often being deemed as the important one, and fashion being the exciting little bit of distraction from the depression that the news casts over the world.

Yet at times like with John Galliano and Kate Middleton's wedding dress, the fashion world becomes the news. Then there's the times like with the Japanese earthquake/tsunami and events like World AIDs day, when news becomes fashion. The latest evidence of this being the fashion relief thing being run in America to raise money for the Japanese victims, as covered here in Vogue. 

Then there's the interbreeding that goes on between fashion and news on the television - the female presenters are expected to always look their best, to look business like but fashionable. In all honesty, when was the last time you saw a news presenter, on BBC for example, wearing the same outfit within a month? I don't think I've ever seen it, and it's a joy of their job. 

I'm still trying to figure out when exactly this turn came about - when the 2 topics became quite so intertwined, but I can't quite place my finger on it. Has it really always been this way?
Have we always cared what the Prime Minister's wife is wearing, and how this reflects on the current economic climate (remember the outrage at SamCam wearing an expensive designer dress when her husband had just announced major spending cuts?), or has this become a more recent development in the shallowness this world is displaying?

So many thoughts on all of this. If there were more readers of this, I'd ask for thoughts and opinions, but y'know... Not gonna happen.