A quick word on the Fashion Pipeline

This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blindly unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff.

For better or worse, my senior thesis was in large part about the fashion pipeline. I love reading and learning about high fashion (haute couture, alta moda, etc.), but let's face it, how much of the designer "stuff" we see in Vogue or Harper's Bazaar can we realistically pull off or afford? For regular folks like us, it's all about the pret-a-porter (ready to wear), the diffusion lines, the lumpy blue sweaters, if you will. This blog will occasionally cover high fashion to see what trends are coming down the pipe, but mostly, I'm all about the "value finds", or those up-and-coming designers' clothes that can actually be affordable if you're willing to wait for the right sale. Anyway, thanks for reading, check back for updates soon!