The other thing that I would say, which means I am a little less grief stricken than others, is that much of the conceptual work is not the sort of work which, once it's gone, we have lost, because in a sense it was the idea rather than its realisation that helped influence our aestheticworld.
The best response I've found to a vision of a world without the Fall comes from Pope Benedict XVI, who once said that what Christianity brought into the world was a radical challenge to the Greek aesthetic.
"In the fashion world, being a villain is definitely a sought after aesthetic and that's a problem for ethical designers because we come across as the do-gooders, " Katcher said.