Rent The Runway...High End Fashion For All

Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Carter Fleiss, two recent Harvard Business School graduates have created the beautiful idea of renting and returning designer dresses, called Rent the Runway. With the help of Diane Von Furstenburg, and a few business plans, these two young ladies formed a business, similar to Netflix.  You are able to browse, high end designer dresses online, and for 10% of the retail price rent a dress. Two sizes (just in case your not what you think you are) are sent to your door, and once your  done wearing the dress, it is sent back in a pre-packaged box.  This is no different than what celebrities do when sample pieces are loaned out. Rent The Runway, has made high fashion more accessible to the public.  Sorry fella's they currently only rent dresses, but that sounds like another great untouched business!

Another Designer Gone...

Spring 2010

Its sad to see designer go bankrupt, or put in a position where they can no longer express their love to the world.  Although I'm no fan of British label, Luella, I sympathize with Ms.Luella Bartley.  She thought her problems ended when Club 21 decided they would no longer invest in her line, but now her 2010 Spring Collection will not even be shipped.   Some blame it on the economy, but if your truly that good, someone will help you.   Luella's past 2009 collection gives the vibe of what a grandmother would wear to a tea party, with everything garnished in lace and frills.  But this Spring 2010 collection was slightly different, more girly,with an air of the sixties.  Her collections are great inspiration, but I doubt I would ever want to wear a complete look.

Spring 2009

Spring 2008

Do You Know Where Your Clothes Are Made?

As a production intern, I am constantly at various factories, dropping off fabrics, picking up samples, giving patterns; here is what I see on a weekly basis.  Before this internship, my idea of the factories where my clothes were being made, definitely was not this.  What is so interesting about these places, are  that the majority of them are in nice, renovated buildings.  From the outside you would never guess that there are overworked and under paid foreigners slaving over patterns and fabrics.  BTW, whenever you get new clothes, WASH THEM! they are never cleaned, from the time the fabric are picked up to when they are shipped to stores, soap never hits them.  Sometimes they may be steamed, but never cleaned.