Fashion Design
06.14.09
Fashion Design, Avant-Garde Fashion, dark, conceptual
The following is an article entitled " Two Words for Fall: Toughen Up" by Cathy Horyn from The New York Times online (www.nytimes.com) dated March 18, 2009. ONE of the reasons fashion is a young person’s game is that older people keep wishing it were dead. Consider how often in this newspaper we’ve heard the groanings that unreal amounts of money, celebrity and marketing are knocking the more genuine stuff out of fashion. Yet even if the complaint seems valid, it is largely an older generation’s reaction to the speed and inorganic nature of change, and not a result of our changing relation to what we wear. Fashion is not dead, but the world has slowed down and sobered up. Between