Fashion Killed Taste

Prompt 8: Jenna Lyons, Well-Loved Mercedes, Chintz

Several weeks ago, a journalist inquired as to whether I read the estimable Rachel Tashjian’s latest piece. Not for comment, just out of curiosity. She loved it. I had feelings.

In “Whatever Happened to Having Taste?” Tashjian pits designer Jenna Lyons and her irrefutable style against that of her Real Housewives of New York castmates, all but one other…