Anna Wintour in A River In Egypt

Morley Safer's 60 Minutes sitdown with Vogue editrix Anna Wintour was pretty soft. But there were some striking images of the fashion industry. Luxe and stridently over-the-top, even as it peers into a black abyss.

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Yes, fashion is in deep dark trouble, as The Atlantic observes this month. They even dig up a delicious F. Scott Fitzgerald quote about cocktail party revelers in Great Depression-era New York. It sounds eerily familiar to what we saw last night:

A last hollow survival of the days of carnival [in which] a few childish wraiths still played to keep up the pretense that they were alive, betraying by their feverish voices and hectic cheeks the thinness of the masquerade.

Yes, these doyennes and dandies of Fashion may have appeared snootily unaware of their own cratering last night, but perhaps those expressions have since changed. What with this morning's news and all.