New York Fashion Week. Sure, an institution. Los Angeles Fashion Week. Okay, yeah. Then Miami Fashion Week. Uhhh, I guess. Then Texas Fashion Week. Hmmm. San Francicso Fashion Week. Boston. Portland. Chicago. D.C. Now, there's Virginia Fashion Week and we think it's high time to pump the fashion week brakes. It's great that everybody wants to celebrate their style -- and VA, with its big homegrown labels and skaters and surfers and hipsters -- certainly has it. But enough with the off-the-map fashion weeks people, seriously. A true fashion week showcasing art and commerce is one thing; a series of amateur shows in a Holiday Inn with clothes from the mall is quite another. What's next, Rural Appalachian Fashion Week? Backwoods Mississippi Fashion Week? Sheesh.
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i was just talking about this and agree with you completely...when did fashion week become a mall-sponsored event?
I just wanted to comment on Backwoods Mississippi Fashion Week. That's very ignorant, and if you knew anything about fashion, you would know that fashion doesn't birth in just a few states like New York, L.A., and Paris. You have designers that are dominant that come from such places as "Mississippi" who run major corporations in the fashion industry, and one of the first designers to become known in Paris was a designer from Mississippi who graduated from Parsons. Besides that, fashion is weak when the talent is weak. It doesn't matter what state the fashion week is in, it's the mentality of the individual who feels that talent is up-to-par only in certain areas. I know this blog is old, but I had to comment on it. ;-)
Posted by: City Gurl Mississippi at May 23, 2008 6:49 PM
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