Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These changes have been complicated by a 20-year old trend to bring fashion to the masses. In addition to things like DKNY and A/X, two examples exist in our fair city: Gap Inc.'s high-end line, the Banana Republic (with four locations alone in the greater Boston area) and the conceptually resourceful Filene's Basement...
...This puffing up of retail lines is in a sense also a dumbing down of legitimate designer fashion, just as the mass repoduction of a famous work of art would blur one's conception of the actual thing. One wonders if fashion would be safer in a museum. Fashion is art, after all. If painting the nude is considered the highest of artistic genres, then clothing the body is in the least soft sculpture. One look at the designs of haute couturiers such as John Galliano for the House of Dior can't help but draw comparisions to the surrealism...
...only mean the Apocalypse. Usually these types of ideas are relegated to specific facets of society: messianic religious movements or anti-technology groups. It's the end of the world, the end of Virtue, the end of the Modern Welfare State and now Teri Agins, a veteran fashion journalist at the Wall Street Journal, has written a book called The End of Fashion...
...fair, Agins doesn't suggest that mannequins and boutiques, from Rodeo Drive to Newbury Street, are going to start spontaneously combusting in celebration of the new year. Rather, Agins crafts an incredibly selective history of twentieth-century fashion, concluding that haute couture has taken 40 years to die and the final funeral peals only happen to coincide with the end of the world. Escalating operating costs, conglomeration and insidious in-fighting, when coupled with "democratic" trends in the market, sealed fashion's fate...
...history of fashion began in Paris and ended in the United States, though by the time the Americans had entered the scene, the party was mostly over. The "clothes horses" of the '80s "were known to blow $100,000 or more on a couture wardrobe on a single Paris trip." These trans-Atlantic pirates, in the era of fashion news programs like CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" became the final guard of a dying industry, and Agins argues that we (you, me and her) looked up to them until our trust was broken. Haute Couture had never resembled...