If a Famous Fashion Designer Yells in Times Square, Does Anybody Hear Him?

A self-professed “reasonably successful, designer, businessman, parent, and philanthropist but … frustrated activist,” Kenneth Cole today went public with the AWEARNESS Blog, “the perfect venue for personal expression and for encouraging genuine change.” Cole — or his ghostwriter — is posting himself, but he’s also enlisted about a dozen writers, photographers, and filmmakers, and one talented musician in KT Tunstall, to join him in the effort.
Obviously, I’m all for blogging, but I’m not sure that mere “venting” — his word, not mine — is the way to effect the kind of change that Cole envisions. He chairs the Foundation for …read more