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August
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As you probably know by now, Heidi Klum and Seal renewed their wedding vows this past weekend with a white trash-themed ceremony in Malibu, complete with cornrows and a mullet wig for Seal. And the week before that, socialite Derek Blasberg threw a white trash birthday bash, in which Fabiola, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, and Byrdie Bell all donned bandanas, stick-on tattoos, and big plastic earrings for the affair. All this got us thinking: What is it with fashion's obsession with the trailer park? From Vivienne Westwood's trash-tastic campaign images shot in a California trailer park to Alex Wang's personal penchant for the low class (he even dressed up as a Burger King server for Halloween last year)—as evidenced by his trailer-park themed spring '08 lookbook—it seems the glitzy posh set really takes perverse pleasure in getting down and dirty every once in a while. Unsurprising, considering everyone from Jack Kerouac to Edie Sedgwick has played the poor little rich boy/girl act. So could next season's runways be inundated with more over-bleached hair, ripped tights, fake nails, and daisy dukes? Don't say we didn't warn you....
