>> Yesterday in between couture shows, Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld, and Hamish Bowles sat down with French industry minister Christian Estrosi for a half hour meeting Wintour requested. She told Estrosi that France doesn't do enough to support fashion and encouraged more support for young designers.
"She's right," Estrosi admitted during a press conference afterwards — for which Wintour wasn't present. "Everyone knows the role Anna plays in making New York a great fashion capital. My objective was to benefit from her experience."
Estrosi has plans for a state-owned bank to offer financing for fashion start-ups, with more details to come by the end of March; the state will act as loan guarantor. “I want Paris to remain the world's capital of fashion. Today, we need people to share the risks.”
He also pledged to Wintour that he will relax the country's 35-hour work week for fashion house employees who need to work twice that amount in the weeks leading up to the fashion shows. And a master's degree to help French students compete with peers who attend schools like Central St. Martins is being developed.
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A loan for fashion design? Sure it sounds like a good idea, but
just wait and see when these banks go bankrupt because none of the
designers are gonna make any money. What a stupid thing to do.
Ok,sorry but,while I agree with her position on the matter, I don't get why an American editor has her say on French politics.It sounds a lot like a political deja-vu for me, where a patronising American tells other countries what they should do or that they're not doing it right.A lot of foreign designers decide to work/present their work in Paris, are the French telling the Americans that they don't know how to set/handle fashion shows or their business because their fashion week looks particularly pale in comparison to the French one ? No.I don't see where it's Anna Wintour's job to give her opinion on the matter with a French minister.
Anna Wintour should concentrate more on the New York designer instead of trying to show that Carine is not taking care of the Paris new designers. If Anna think that her job is well done in New York by supporting the most hype and of the moment designers in the city, let me tell you that she's wrong. Most of New York deisgners are in danger as much as the Paris new generation.
I am not american and I'm not taking parts on this matter. I love Corine and respect Anna as the women that she is, but, in this particular issue, I think what Anna did is admirable and great for the industry. We can't go into this with a negative mentality and think that young designers are not gonna make any money. For the contrary, we should try to support something like this so young talents is sponsored not just financially but mentored as well. It takes a lot to succeed in fashion. Money is needed but so is the right marketing and PR teams.
I love you all but think about it, overall, this is a great thing for fashion. If you don't start supporting young designers great fashion could get to an end. Or do you think the Karl's and Oscar's are going to last forever?
Except that all young designers aren't French so I don't see what an American editor is doing there specifically addressing a French political issue.It would be a good thing overall if it was something international and not a national issue.You love us all when you don't know us ? That too is admirable, really...Anna didn't think about fashion overall, she just basically interferred in a field or gave herself an authority that she shouldn't have.That's not a world council/financers meeting that she initiated thinking about the good of all young designers (I don't think that just the French designers suffer from being underexposed for some obscure reason), that's her playing the role of the 'original American policeman' getting out of her field of expertise to give her opinion when no-one asked her anything,the usual 'we're going to cure you/free you/tell you what you should do' when us Americans do have problems of our own to deal with, we choose to tell others what they should do because 'hey, we're American'.
as a young french owned brand, i think it's great at least someone is ackonowleding the lack of support for young designers in france. even the countries ANDAM award has gone to british designers 2 years in a row, while many promising and french based designers are overlooked. it's a bit sad that it takes an american editor to point out the ovbvious, but at least someone felt the need to say what everyone else in the french design community has been talking about for years.
l am American and NOT in "the industry." I admit I normally don't buy American Vogue because it's too USA Centric. It leaves me craving for European pictures.
Anna is trying to make a valid point, it's true it is annoying to have an American going to another country to advise people what to do, but if the problem exists, and nobody else deals with it... Now the minister is a bit out of it when it comes to the MA course that will "rival" CSM and RAFAA, does he think these schools were created and reached the place they are right now just like that? From one day to another?
I think European and American fashion markets are very well establish
and now they are facing major recession tenure, to eliminate this you
to focus to get young designers/manufacturers from 3rd world countries
where production cost etc. is way too low and excellent finish products,
in this way you are helping them come up and as well as boost american
and european industries. Espacially women enterpreneurs like me face
loads of trouble for break through and I have not got any as yet....
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