"Obviously that insecurity isn't unique to fashion people—the nagging sense that we're weird and flawed and broken, and the impulse to hide that from the world at all costs by wearing the right thing, is one of the most basic things you and I and Schuman have in common as humans lucky enough to not have to worry about things like survival. And if Schuman, in his photographs, doesn't try to cut through that, if he makes himself a participant in his subjects' self-concealment, an accomplice, if he actually embroiders the lie by creating an imaginary world where it can live—well, look, you can see that as cowardly or you can see it as humane."
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