Fabric: The Reason Why Collections Are Not Created Equal
@ 12:10 pm March 2, 2008Filed under: Focal Point
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PARIS, Mar 2, 2008 / FW/ — With the international fashion season ending today as Paris Fashion Week closes, fashion editors and writers have seen hundreds of collections with all four cities – New York, London, Milan and Paris combined.
With all the high-street fashion we had seen for men and women, plus haute couture (you know, the week that broke up menswear and womenswear), it’s time to look back and think how each collection differ from each other. And though we could think of a lot of reasons why each collection is unique, fabric is a constant factor among all of them.
In the U.S., one of Cotton Incorporated ads announces ‘The fabrics of our lives,’ a play on words for a metaphor on the ‘cloth’ that is used for fashion and the ‘fabric’ that the mythical Fates use to weave our lives.
In the fashion industry, the fabric that Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, collectively called the Fates in Greek mythology is real in the sense that the material used in a collection actually defines it.
Haute couture, high street or fast retailing – which one would it be? In the article ‘The Globalization of Fabric’, Susannah Handley answers that question.
Read the article here.
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