“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

As well intentioned and relatively gentle as "My Fair Weddings" is, it's also a fairly harsh reminder that celebrity worship is nothing more than old-fashioned class-consciousness, mass-produced and tabloidized, and that weddings provide just another opportunity for the professional purveyors of style to express themselves. We're attached to the idea that with enough money and coaching, anyone can rise to the professionally styled rung of the meritocracy where the not-so-well-born rich hang out. We can't talk about class (or the nexus of money, education and privilege) directly, but we can still broach the subject as long as we couch it in purely aesthetic terms. Problem solved!

Washington Post
Dec 14 2008