When, back in the day, the much-missed Franco first incorporated the “Good Taste” phrase into his oeuvre, people were much smarter than they are now. Our brains had yet to become corroded by Paris Hilton, Ryan Seacrest, Oxycontin and Kim Kardashian’s bottom.

Back in the 1980s, the good people of planet Earth understood that Moschino’s intention was subversive. He was spotlighting the oppressive and fraudulent nature of the concept of good taste—i.e., good taste is totally subjective; i.e., one person’s bedazzled pink nylon jumpsuit is another person’s gray flannel chalk-stripe suit, etc., etc. Got it?

….Why Ed Hardy? Why now?