Fashion, Whats The Point Of A Fashion Show,

[trt]

apart from Celebs wanting their photos taken to be seen.

Most of the dresses, costumes will never be worn by people going out for dinner, theatre, holidays etc, so why the look of ridiculous?

If these so called famous designers, bought a load of second hand clothes from a charity shop, threw them on the models, and walked them on the walkway, most of the so called Celebs would still rave about them, not knowingly where they came from.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3478480/Vivienne-Westwood-rescues-catwalk-model-suffers-embarrassing-wardrobe-malfunction.html?ito=social-facebook#newcomment

Happy Mothers Day Ladies!

[bookbinder]

It's the names of the designers that matter, not what they design. As long as their names get in the public eye, they're happy. We're not likely to see any of their creations on our way to work, in the supermarket, or elsewhere, but I suspect that fashion shows are just advertisements for the 'names'.

[atalanta]

The whole point of fashion shows is to sell lots of wildly overpriced glossy fashion
magazines in which these designers take out expensive advertisements, if not for their clothes, then for their perfumes.

[Prudie]

You've obviously never listened to Meryl Streep in the Devil wears Prada - the dresses are in fact worn by celebrities but that aside, the key features, colours, hem lines, styles are watered right down and fill our high street clothes stores each year, forming a multi-million pound business.

[Retrochic]

Budget fashion shops like New Look and Primark go to these fashion shows - they look at whatt he designers are doing for the 'season' and then copy them -if a design trend is orange jump suit then you can bet your bottom dollar that primark will have orange jump suits in their stores asap

[joggerjayne]

As Retro says ^^^

The catwalk shows essentially showcase the trends that the whole clothing industry will adopt over the next half year.

It's a way of all the designers saying ... Look, don't spy on me, because I'm putting it all on display.

Without Fashion Week, the clothing industry would have no general direction. Manufacturers who failed to guess the trend would face disaster and job losses. When the media say that "style x will be the in thing this year", it's because the trend appeared on the catwalk, and all the high street shops are ready to follow.

Without this system, a lot of high street clothes retailers would go out of business, and high street prices would have to rise because of the market risk.

So, bottom line ... the catwalk fashion shows enable the mass market to continue wearing "fashionable" clothes year after year.

[Mamyalynne]

Last three posters have said it exactly, no need for me to expand.


Quite like the sweater dress actually.

[Cloverjo]

Yep, I'm wit everyone else here. We need fashion stores to keep high streets in business.
I like nice clothes, but I'm not bothered about keeping up with the latest trends. I find it quite amusing to read headlines in the fashion magazines which say "This week you need to wear grey" or "midi-length skirts" or "boiler suits", all of which are not at all flattering and which I don't want to wear. The whole thing is ridiculous, but we do need them.

[douglas9401]

Fawning journalist lazily uses 'strut their stuff' for the gazillionth time as dead eyed heroin user exposes ribs below pixelated nipple.

Crowd goes wild!

A young black man is not arrested for driving very fast.