council of fashion designers of america? this is real?

[grundletaint]

http://jezebel.com/5325593/how-do-yo...e-fashion-week

The recession is shaking the fashion industry's foundations. Last fall's 85% discounts begat this spring's layoffs. Magazines have folded, labels have shuttered, and consumer spending continues to fall. Anna Wintour thinks this could be solved with a spot of price-fixing.

Yesterday morning, the Council of Fashion Designers of America held a private town hall style meeting to discuss the future of fashion week "” but the meeting soon mushroomed into a general debate on the serious issues the industry is facing. And nothing is off the table. The entire industry superstructure "” how fashion is produced, shown, and sold to the consumer "” was hotly debated by everyone from Anna Wintour, to Francisco Costa, to Diane von Furstenberg.

i had no idea this even exists.

 

[ratboycom]

Thats because you are a smalltimer.

 

[grundletaint]

evidently

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by grundletaint

http://jezebel.com/5325593/how-do-yo...e-fashion-week




i had no idea this even exists.

It definitely exists. I know, because we had to cut last month's Elder's of Zion meeting short, right in the middle of a blood-sucking demonstration, because the Council of Fashion Designers of America had booked the conference room for the afternoon.

 

[ZackyBoy]

Originally Posted by dopey

It definitely exists. I know, because we had to cut last month's Elder's of Zion meeting short, right in the middle of a blood-sucking demonstration, because the Council of Fashion Designers of America had booked the conference room for the afternoon.

So it was you guys that cut our Illuminati morning meeting short?

 

[JohnGalt]

Who do you think Mugatu was taking his orders from?

 

[Joffrey]

Funny article. I like how Anna Wintour suggested the industry collude to keep prices high (or prevent sales).

 

[DesignerValet]

I totally agree with this part of the article:

What nobody was apparently willing to address was that fashion became, during the long recent boom, simply too expensive: there are not enough good designers willing to make a beautiful dress that costs not a few thousand dollars but a few hundred dollars. True designer fashion will never be available at Wal-Mart or H&M prices, but why can so few people manage to make a dress that a member of this country's middle-class could actually, in a good month, splurge on and wear with enjoyment? Sales are not the enemy: sales are the message that what designers are doing is not working.

 

[robin]

 

[Nananine]

Who do you think gave Tim Hamilton his award this year?

 

[Mauro]

This really hits home for me. Anna is a few fries short of a happy meal but the rest make sense to an extent. technology is the real villain. A lot of the time the general public sees the line before I do and I am buying it before the runway shows in some cases.
show spring around spring not in the prior fall , makes sense to me or restrict media and impose fines on the press who leak out the info.
produce less = makes demand higher

shrink your company and stop being greedy . it goes along with making less product.