Fashion and cars: All about style and that's the problem

My stylish hemp shoes?

Earlier this week I read an article in AutoWeek titled Style Marks: Fashion is influencing car design and vice versa, that has been bugging me every since I read it.

Style. What is style? Is it the bling-bling gold chains and fast cars of a rock star? Is style that essential quality we use to obscure reality, you know, check out my hot new runway clothes made in a slave labor camp using obscene amounts of chemicals and with cotton using obscene amounts of water, fertilizers and pesticides? Check out my gas-guzzling, foreign oil war-creating, pollution-causing bling-bling automobile! Gas-guzzling forever, yo!

Well, I guess I'm a dork. I buy my cars and shoes not for how they look, but for the impact they have on the world. Call me overly practical. Call me boring. But I say function trumps style any and every day of the year.