Love Quote by Kathy Griffin

Fashion is an easy target because it arrives pre-inflated with meaning. Kathy Griffin’s line lands like a shrug with a knife in it: “I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly” frames mockery not as cruelty but as a kind of public service. The intent is clear: puncture the glamour bubble, remind everyone that the emperor’s outfit is mostly branding, money, and a little collective hallucination.

Calling fashion “silly” is doing double duty. On the surface, it’s the obvious joke: expensive clothes, ridiculous silhouettes, trends that self-destruct in six months. Underneath, Griffin is making a social observation about hierarchy. Fashion is one of the few arenas where people willingly submit to rules that aren’t even pretending to be rational. The absurdity isn’t accidental; it’s the point. If you can get adults to treat a handbag like a moral credential, you can get them to treat almost anything that way.

The subtext also nods to Griffin’s comedic lane: celebrity culture as a performance of status, with fashion as its loudest prop. Her humor thrives on deflation, the fast pop of taking something “exclusive” and describing it in plain, slightly mean English. It plays especially well in a media environment where red carpets and Instagram grids make style feel like a daily referendum on worth. By insisting it’s “just so silly,” she gives the audience permission to laugh at the system and, crucially, at their own participation in it.