Sure – I’ll go see it because I have a tabloid streak in me just like everyone else. But really, the fashion press reminds me of another industry I worked for in my younger days: the music business. Fashion magazines have about as much real connection to the creative end of the business as radio [...]
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Not me, unfortnately, but Kathleen Fasanella, who met up with Els on her recent trip to Amsterdam. She did a great post of her visit on Fashion-Incubator, and Els honey, you are rocking those eye glass frames! The Boston Globe ran a story today in the Business section about a sucessful class action lawsuit against Federated Department Stores and high end brands such as Chanel, Dior, Calvin Klein, etc. Evidently, Federated and major cosmetics companies violated anti-trust laws by colluding on promotions (among other things) and this amounted to price-fixing.
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Yves St. Laurent has died. Not entirely surprsing news, but sad still because he truly was the last of a generation who will never pass this way again. Every day (actually, several times a day) I read Linda Grant’s blog The Thoughtful Dresser, and her blog is so ingrained in me that I need to read her posts as much as I need my morning coffee. Today she did a post that sums up, brilliantly, what is wrong with fashion, and also why we all sew (not that she meant to, [...] I just got back from reading a post on Pattern Review about Wal-Mart scaling back fabric departments and Hancock’s Chapter 11 filing (I know, this is not news from either company and the sewing forums have been buzzing about this for months.) It’s fascinating to see that while interest in sewing is increasing, the traditional retail [...] Both of my daughters take dance, and they had 2 shows this weekend. Usually, they get their costumes about a week before the shows, and in the past these have been your typically heinous El Cheapo quick-‘n’dirty-I-paid-$75-for-THAT-THING? And of course, because I sew, this is even more painful because I could make a dance costume [...] |
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