And not just there, but in high-end fashion magazines with very, very rare exception, models in fashion shoots generally look about as happy as someone who just found out that their new flatmate is Nigel Farage. As you have rightly noticed, and as some readers may have spotted, too, in the many photos from the fashion shows currently happening, models tend to look pretty miserable on the catwalk. I feel a similar kind of astonishment when someone asks me a question like yours, Iain, one that queries the very foundations upon which fashion is built. Those kids had entirely different gods to worship and were completely unaware of the rules of Sedaris’ childish social circles which seemed, to him, as immutable as gravity. (Sorry, but I can’t look up which one because if I start going through my Sedaris library then I’ll just start reading and this column will never get finished and, well, deadlines, darlings, deadlines.) Sedaris recalls the ground-shaking moment he realised as a child that the cool kids, who were the sun and moon in his youthful universe, were totally unknown to children in other schools. So Iain’s question has reminded me of a throwaway-but-typically-genius line in one of Sedaris’ stories.
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