I suppose we should be grateful to British celebrity fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood for crystallizing contemporary elitist scorn for the rest of us. The UK Telegraph reports on words that should stand as her enduring legacy, much as Marie Antoinette’s famous response when told the starving French peasants had no bread, “Let them eat cake.”   Dame Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer, has declared that people who can’t afford to buy organic food should "eat less" and stop getting fat. The millionaire designer made the comments as she delivered a petition to Downing Street protesting about genetically modified food. When a BBC Radio 5 Live interviewer suggested that "not everybody can afford to eat organic food", Dame Vivienne replied: "Eat less!" Body type has become a class marker. The fashionable upper classes starve themselves and work out at gyms. Ectomorphs are the new natural aristocracy. For...(Read Full Post)