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excerpt from wwd..
“Fashion is polarizing into the people who really are trying to keep the sense of the craft alive in its 20th-century sense, and the 21st-century version of fashion, which is inextricably linked to hype and celebrity,” said Simon Doonan, creative director at Barneys New York. “It’s confusing to people what fashion is anymore.”
If Lopez, Knowles, Sean John and Baby Phat manage to ignite the fashion crowd, they could potentially alter the landscape of fashion weeks to come by encouraging other fledgling celebrity designers such as Jessica Simpson, Nicky Hilton, Gwen Stefani, Eve and Macy Gray to follow their examples. As Nicky Hilton said at the Luca Luca show on Sunday, “Hopefully, in some way, [we impact fashion]. I am a designer.”
“New York fashion has now become the epicenter of the fashion-plus-hype movement,” Doonan said. “Europe is still relatively tranquil. People still consider it a very chic trade show. Here it’s become this explosive, deranged, hype-driven dolce vita, which can be amusing and brings a lot of energy to fashion in New York.”
But with the energy also comes new challenges for designers, particularly young emerging talents who have little or no advertising budgets. To them, a runway show is the most effective tool to reach editors, buyers and thereby consumers most effectively, but with Lopez and her ilk on the official calendar, they naturally will be hard-pressed to get a slice of the attention.
“Fashion is polarizing into the people who really are trying to keep the sense of the craft alive in its 20th-century sense, and the 21st-century version of fashion, which is inextricably linked to hype and celebrity,” said Simon Doonan, creative director at Barneys New York. “It’s confusing to people what fashion is anymore.”
If Lopez, Knowles, Sean John and Baby Phat manage to ignite the fashion crowd, they could potentially alter the landscape of fashion weeks to come by encouraging other fledgling celebrity designers such as Jessica Simpson, Nicky Hilton, Gwen Stefani, Eve and Macy Gray to follow their examples. As Nicky Hilton said at the Luca Luca show on Sunday, “Hopefully, in some way, [we impact fashion]. I am a designer.”
“New York fashion has now become the epicenter of the fashion-plus-hype movement,” Doonan said. “Europe is still relatively tranquil. People still consider it a very chic trade show. Here it’s become this explosive, deranged, hype-driven dolce vita, which can be amusing and brings a lot of energy to fashion in New York.”
But with the energy also comes new challenges for designers, particularly young emerging talents who have little or no advertising budgets. To them, a runway show is the most effective tool to reach editors, buyers and thereby consumers most effectively, but with Lopez and her ilk on the official calendar, they naturally will be hard-pressed to get a slice of the attention.
i was just reading this article online...
I remember reading somewhere that people are anxiously waiting for JLo's much talked about show. It's like, oh dear, first of all her style is pretty disgusting, imagine translating that on the catwalk. It's such a sad thing that fashion has become a phenomen excluding fashion itself. 
) and the prices were ridiculously for the garbage (dang, I said it again) that they produced. Poor craftmanship. I remember I was with my mother in Macy's and she was buying pantyhose and I went over to look at purses and I saw a big sale bin with stuff in (I always try to look for hidden treasures) and I saw a Fetish bag...ugly as the sky is blue. The purse was originally $139.00 but was being sold for $39.00. The purse was so ugly that I wouldn't have paid $9.00 for it. Yes, I was that ugly (dang, there I go repeating myself again....
)...So hopefully JLo. and the other lines will do the same thing and in a few years we will look back and say..."jennifer who's clothing line???"
