03rd Apr 2008
Fashion’s Revolving Door
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Peter Dundas, Lars Nilsson, Paulo Melim Andersson and Isabel Toledo, these names may means completely nothing to the public at large, but for the fashion spectators they represent some of the top talent in the industry. The New York Times this morning has a piece trying to figure out, why, if they’re so good, can’t they stay employed? On the face of it the answer is pretty simple, they’re drama queens, the whole lot of them. Truth though is stranger than the fiction that is spooled around. As an example, they look at Lars Nilsson who seems to get divorced more than Elizabeth Taylor. Nilsson got the axe after everyone (meaning the fashion intelligentsia) knocked his showing for Bill Blass in 2003 for being wack, yo. A couple of years later he was fired again, but this time he didn’t get to show a thing as it was a couple of seconds (hyperbole folks) after he was hired at Gianfranco Ferre.
Isabel Toledo it seems sent her surrogate out to describe why she got the hook and why the sky will fall on the fashion industry if they don’t take heed at what he is saying. He states quote, “It really is a case of these big business people who do not understand why creativity is valuable in the first place…Big business people think: ‘Oh, do we have to go with a creative person? Can’t we just fill the job with a merchandiser?’ “You don’t put a scientist into the kitchen of a chef.” Read more here.
Posted by Eva @ 6:49 am
