On this episode we speak with three young fashion media people – Luke Meagher of the YouTube and Instagram channel Haute Le Mode, Mario Abad, the fashion editor of Paper magazine, and Jose Criales-Unzueta, a regular contributor to I-D, Them and the Business of Fashion about the challenges they face and the problems they see with the current fashion media landscape.
“The real issue is that in the fashion business, it’s almost against the law to tell the truth, and anyone who steps behind the silk curtain to show how raw the business is can expect a rough time. Designers go to grotesque lengths to exaggerate their concepts to the press. And the press is just as guilty when it swallows the bait and spews forth huge headlines. The self-importance of our profession is appalling.”
So wrote John Fairchild in his 1989 biography, Chic Savages (quoted in Teri Agins’s book, The End of Fashion). Fairchild being the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Women’s Wear Daily for decades, I see no reason not to believe him. Another reason not to believe him is that over the past ten years I have increasingly come to feel the same.
We would like to present to you Sacai’s Fall/Winter 2022 Women’s Paris collection.
We would like to present to you Hyke’s Fall/Winter 2022 Women’s Tokyo collection.
We would like to present to you Ann Demeulemeester’s Fall/Winter 2022 Women’s Paris collection.
We would like to present to you Junya Watanabe’s Fall/Winter 2022 Women’s Paris collection.
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