Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?
“I think fashion is in a funny state,” said Blazy. “It grew very, very fast over the last years, post pandemic, and it kind of hit a ceiling. I think now what fashion needs to do is to rethink its own model, but not just when it comes to design. We’ve seen some houses exploding, we’ve seen some houses collapsing. What needs to be done is a deep... See more
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Writers are supposed to chronicle “the dream” of fashion, but they are far from living it. Those writers who appeared to be living the ideal writer life? Those on staff at Vice Media, Paper Magazine or Condé Nast? They just got laid off. It looks like yesterday a big part of i-D’s editorial team was let go as well. It’s a media crisis, and glitzy... See more
instagram.comIn the fashion industry, gatekeeping is an unspoken rule. Which sets many up for failure, burnouts, or debt. If you’re extra lucky, everything combined. This closed-door policy is a cynical paradox, considering fashion lives off the public. And yet, we are all guilty of spreading glittery narratives, differing from the notably less sparkly reality.
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
Ultimately, Proenza’s fortunes unravelled for many of the same reasons so many of its peers are no longer in business: misallocation of funds, disagreements with investors, seismic shifts in the industry at large, and a fashion ecosystem that did a poor job of preparing young designers for the realities of entrepreneurship.
The Nine Lives of Proenza Schouler
“Status emerges not only as a fixed position in hierarchy but as a relational, performative concept enacted through visible consumption.” - interns perform belonging before being paid, becomes emotional and financial labour. only accessible to those who can afford to work for free. this necessity to fit in to the industry by having this experience
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