Ask Men is conducting it’s annual top 99 survey. But you can’t nominate anyone.

Ask Men is conducting it’s annual top 99 survey. But you can’t nominate anyone. Sure, you can vote for the obvious Nicole Kidman and Ann Hathaway. But what good is a survey without Emily De Ravin and Sienna Miller, or even Gwyneth Paltrow? (And what is Pippa doing on that list?) I’ve been working on a long essay on beauty for the past couple of years, on and off. (Did you know people are actually getting better looking?) But like fashion, beauty is becoming a domain of the lower classes, just as have become the arts. Sigh. More vulgar and sexual than representative of human excellence, perfection and grace. … I follow The Sartorialist daily. (Everyone who loves fashion should.) But he captures, better than anyone, the reality that it is a product all too often of the lower middle, and proletarian classes. On the other hand, Ralph Lauren and Gucci pretty much have a creative monopoly on influencing elegance. Fashion is signaling. And from an economic perspective, it’s fascinating.