New York Fashion Week Fall 2015???

 

Artist rendering of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in 2010

Ever since Mercedes Benz Fashion Week set up shop at Lincoln Center, NY Fashion Week has become nothing short of a spectacle with the drama outside the tents often overshadowing the shows. And by drama I don't mean the excessive peacocking that occurs on the outdoor promenade (although that is a big part of it). What I'm referring to are the constant stream of complaints that seem to mark each season, not the least of which come from top editors regarding overcrowding and commercialization. Unfortunately, industry complaints were never the worst of it.

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Denim is Not Dead

While I perused the booths at MAGIC, Project, Liberty and the countless other fashion tradeshows that were going on in Vegas last week, reports were circulating in the media that jeans are on the decline. As I read through them, I became hyperaware of the myriad of people in some form of denim or the infinite amount of established and up-and-coming denim brands that were showing at almost all of the shows. So what am I to think with so much contradictary information? Well...to put it bluntly, I think denim naysayers are nuts!

If denim was going out of fashion would we have red carpet runway like this...

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