Imagineering Style

What’s Up with Fashion?

          Let’s face it people, no one knows what to do with fashion these days!

I am a designer and an owner of a few fashion websites, I work with many designersfrom the U.S. and abroad. I receive countless trade magazines, e-mails and let’s not forget the classics Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar. I tend to read about 20+ fashion magazines each and every month and I have come to the conclusion…We in the fashion trade game are absolutely clueless!!

          To prove my theory I pulled up various magazines, (I will protect their identity so they are not too embarrassed), and viewed what they had for the past two years. Then I pulled up my photos of clothing in the retail sector (I have merchandised for several big name manufactures since 2001), analyzed a two history. And hmmm, nothing really changed. The same type of, well you know.

          I was baffled! Yes, most designers try to introduce new product. Let’s take those molded wild flower-trimmed pumps by Prada, hot, fun and new at $790: Love it! But just can’t afford them when it cost $100 a week just to fill up my SUV!

          Single mom’s across America (myself included) need to put food on the table, gas in the car and stylish clothes on our school age kids. My teen wants designer clothes, but I am not happy with the cuts or styles for today’s teenage girls, but that’s a whole different blog!

Back to fashion…

          How many tees can I own? How many pairs of jeans!? Don’t get me started on low rise for women over 30 post-child births! I need more, more I tell you! That’s why I started this blog. I want women no…Let me rephrase that… I need American women to shout out and say:

I want more…

I don’t want any …

I am bored with…

Please no more…

I need better…

          I don’t know, you fill in the blanks. All I know is that I am an American woman with fashion needs and I am in a position to do something about it!

Every month I will post a few fashion blogs on the N.Y. fashion scene.

•   -What’s up with Fashion (exposé, style vs. affordability)

•    -NYC Street Scene (What’s on the streets of NYC, everything from tourist to celebrities)

•   -Trends a la N.Y.C! (the rundown on what to expect from N.Y. Fashion capitol of the world). Yes we still are…

Write me with your views or send me pictures at patrice@imagineeringstyle.com.

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