"Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar cliches or a wild scramble for novelty." - Paul Rand

It's a terrible cliché I know...nautical stripes...a Burberry trench...and a French Vogue stylist thrown in for good measure. I may be biased (based on the number of Breton stripes and trenches battling for breathing room in my closet) but, compared to the lemming-like rush for the new and the novel, is a stylish stereotype such a bad thing?