Fashion Critic Discovered in Proverbial Cave

So I’m not going to pretend to understand the first thing about high fashion. I’ve been to a Cynthia Rowley show once, because a friend of mine from college works with her and I thought it would be a good adventure. It was startlingly brief and, yes, the women were strikingly thin. But I generally try not to stick my nose where it doesn’t belong. I like thrift store shopping and bargain hunting. I’m just not cut out for the fancy stuff.
But even I recognize that this New York Times critic is slangin’ some serious bullshit in this round-up of the recent Paris fashion shows:

The most successful collections address females with great respect, accepting them in their totality, acknowledging the emotional complexity of their desire to seduce and be seduced. A central theme of this season is what it means to be a woman in a post-feminist, post-consumerist, post-political society: independent of what men want and think.

Um, excuse me. Post-feminist? Post consumerist? Post-political? Has this journalist been in a cave for the last two years while an entire nation got insane over the presidential election, folks consume like it’s going out of style (even in a recession), and our blog–among so many other amazing others– has such a devoted and wide following? Someone please explain.