Insiders Balk at Increasingly Fast-Paced Fashion Cycle December 12, 2008 3:10 pm >> With Pre-Fall show season in full swing, it may seem like business as usual on the surface, but within the span of two days, Stefano Gabbana, Donna Karan, and Bridget Foley, executive editor at WWD, have spoken out indicating otherwise. The consensus is that the industry needs rehab — and fast — that or, Foley writes, "we can wait for total industry Armageddon, à la the financial and auto industries, to step back and try to set things right."Gabbana was first kickstarted into action when he saw cotton shorts being stocked last year in the Milanese Dolce & Gabbana store during Winter:
"I started asking myself, ‘What’s happening?’ As a consumer I said, ‘No, this makes no sense.'
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