The Fashion Smoke

11.01.11 | FORD FOCUS

 

"I don’t get the need for this immediacy. In fact, I think it’s bad.

The way the system works now, you see the clothes, within an hour 
or so they’re online, the world sees them. They don’t get to a store
 for six months. The next week, young celebrity girls are wearing
 them on red carpets. They’re in every magazine. The customer 
is bored with those clothes by the time they get to the store. 
They’re overexposed, you’re tired of them, they’ve lost their freshness… 
In addition, all of the fast-fashion companies that do a great job, by the
 way, knock everything off. So it’s everywhere all over the streets in three
 months and by the time you get it to the store, what’s the point?

I’m holding everything back… The clothes are not going out to magazines 
before January issues. The clothes are not going to celebrities before
 December. The images are not being released online until December, 
when they’ll go online on my Web site."

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Tom Ford is so on point! 

I definitely feel the same sense of trends being old and over done before 
they've even happened. 

And you know what makes it even better... you can just picture him 
saying it is his sexy southern drawl. We're all ears!

PHIE PHIE x

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