Commentary A friend of mine sent me pictures of a famous fashion house’s latest collection for men. I believed that they were for men, for my friend would not deliberately have misled me, but the models on which the clothes were shown looked to me very like severely anorexic women. It was as if they had been recruited from some concentration camp run by an atrocious regime. As for the clothes themselves, they were feminine, deliberately so, for the designers claimed that they wanted by their collection to combat sexual stereotypes. They, the designers, have become what Stalin once called writers (that is to say, those whom he did not kill or drive into exile), namely engineers of human souls. Fashion in ideas has become as important to fashion designers as fashion in clothes. In this, they are following the architects, who long ago ceased to be mere designers of …