![]() ![]() Here as well are fascinating insider vignettes that show Donna Karan fighting with financiers,the rivalry between Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and the commitment to haute conture that sent Isaac Mizrahi's business spiraling. Teri Agins is the author of The End of Fashion (3.87 avg rating, 959 ratings, 69 reviews, published 1999), Hijacking the Runway (3.66 avg rating, 184 rat. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, anmd licensing to image making and financing. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. ![]() ![]() This is a landmark book which reveals the complexities inside fashion in an original and. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. THE END OF FASHION is a watershed book which has pioneered a new realm of what fashion means to people. A solid, hard-hitting, and uncompromising journalistic look at the fashion industry. Praise for THE END OF FASHION Teri Agins is one of the most influential and well-respected reporters in the industry of fashion and all its facets. ![]()
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