This tidy little essay in Fashionista asks if luxury designer collaborations are doing customers a disservice. Basically, when designers, like Phillip Lim, knock off themselves, it hurts the customers that shell out four-digit sums for the swag.
T Magazine is lamenting the “demise of the fashion eccentric.” Today’s fashion scene, in Milwaukee and beyond, has many attention-seekers dressing for that goal alone, but I’m not convinced the days of genuine eccentricity (as defined by T) are gone for good.
And everyone is talking about Conde Nast cutting its internship program entirely.
