I’m an economics professor at a good college. A fair number of my students are interested in fashion and have written on the topic for one of my “apply economics to anything” paper assignments. Fashion is a deeper topic than you might imagine and can justifiably attract bright minds.
Prediction: A typical fashion designer and physics PhD get into a conversation. If the fashion designer wanted the PhD to greatly enjoy the conversation she could easily do this (even without doing anything sexual) but the reverse probably doesn’t hold true.
I didn’t mean to suggest that being in the fashion industry implies that someone is unintelligent. I’ve known plenty of smart people in industries that are not traditionally thought of as being full of smart people. For this reason, I usually approach a conversation assuming that someone is good at something they do, has thought about it deeply, and has something interesting to say about it. It’s usually much easier for me to tease this out with smarter people.
I’m an economics professor at a good college. A fair number of my students are interested in fashion and have written on the topic for one of my “apply economics to anything” paper assignments. Fashion is a deeper topic than you might imagine and can justifiably attract bright minds.
Prediction: A typical fashion designer and physics PhD get into a conversation. If the fashion designer wanted the PhD to greatly enjoy the conversation she could easily do this (even without doing anything sexual) but the reverse probably doesn’t hold true.
I didn’t mean to suggest that being in the fashion industry implies that someone is unintelligent. I’ve known plenty of smart people in industries that are not traditionally thought of as being full of smart people. For this reason, I usually approach a conversation assuming that someone is good at something they do, has thought about it deeply, and has something interesting to say about it. It’s usually much easier for me to tease this out with smarter people.