A well known Canadian fashion magazine recently contacted me and asked if I\u2019d be willing to help them \u201cdecode\u201d Jian Ghomeshi\u2019s courtroom attire. It seemed in dubious taste to me, but as I can\u2019t control the Invisible Hand of the free market, I accepted. These are the results:<\/p>\n

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\u201cOn Wednesday morning, the public got their first glimpse of disgraced CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi– who is charged with five criminal offences including sexual assault and choking–as he appeared at a downtown Toronto courthouse.<\/p>\n

What are sex criminals wearing this season?<\/p>\n

Well, foregoing his signature, I\u2019m-old-but-a-downtown-scenester-who-likes-beating-women-rock-guy style, Ghomeshi went with a black suit, crisp white shirt and subtly pattered dark tie. Standing beside his fearless and brilliant lawyer, Marie Henin, who was smartly turned-out in black with a lurid splash of lipstick across her face, the pair looked evil and powerful, like they had mastered the dark arts and were taking the charges very seriously.<\/p>\n

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Ghomeshi, who typically sports a youthful, mop of dyed hair that suggested the gentle innocence of a Muppet to his victims, had trimmed it, a clear attempt to convey to the court that he was a serious man, a full grown predator and that these women would have understood that, via his hair, and thus implicitly consented to being attacked by him. His signature five-o\u2019clock-shadow, a reminder of his love and violent fantasies surrounding the sleazy 1980\u2019s TV show Miami Vice, <\/a>was gone, once again suggesting that he was a powerful, business-savvy man of violent and criminal action. \u201cThink Christian Grey, not Ted Bundy, \u201c Mr. Ghomeshi\u2019s stubble-free face declares.<\/p>\n

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By not wearing a bloodstained white shirt, Ghomeshi and his legal team are sending a clear message to the courts that he is not always beating women for his own twisted sexual gratification, \u00a0but is often taking time to try to plot some form of consent from his victims, usually while setting up his video camera and arranging his other props. The tie, dark and respectful, but with a subtle pattern, is a clear indicator of the BDSM interior of Ghomeshi, a bold statement of his violent intentions that not even the most drugged, intoxicated or star-struck woman could possibly have misunderstood.<\/p>\n

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In court we see that Ghomeshi has decided to eschew the tie and go for a more casual, you\u2019re-relaxed-and-in-my-lair-and-I\u2019m-showing-you-my-record-collection vibe. He\u2019s showing the court that he\u2019s their friend, the voice that they allowed into their home, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom for so many years, and that their relationship is now so intimate that the obvious next step is to introduce a startling, brutally violent, dangerous and one-sided sexual component into their life together.<\/p>\n

With Ghomeshi, the safe word is always \u201cstyle.\u201d \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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