New York Fashion Week-back to basics!!!

Fashion week anywhere in the world happens to be my favorite holiday.  In New York designers normally show at the iconic Bryant Park location.  Even in this frugal economy designers find the money in their fancy wallets or the financial backing to put on a glamorous spectacle, despite the supposed bad times.  Last year I have already overheard from certain lips that that this or that designers just does not have the money to show at Bryant Park, or anywhere for that matter.  A show at Bryant Park can cost 100,000 and higher.  That seems like a ridiculous number to pay out at this time, only imagine clicking your Christian Louboutins on the city cement passing by the homeless or newspaper stand full of more bad news, while happily attending one of the shows.  As plastic as le la Moda is there is just something wrong about that.   

This year, designers such as Vera Wang and Betsey Johnson have pulled out of doing the show at Bryant Park, deciding instead on a more modest but just as glamorous location.  Cacharel has also announced that he will not going showing in Paris and the numbers are increasing.  The showing of a collection in a less than mainstream location reminds me of Chanel.   The bad economy is most definitely not a pleasant treat for the fashion industry and their accountants, however going back to the basics and concentrating on the designs for once just might inspire the rest of us. I respect those designers who have made the decision to not show off but instead just show us the work.