Zac Posen: “I was ready to go to Paris”

Zac Posen talks about fashion in an interview given to The Talks.

Mr. Posen, is New York fashion boring?
New York is a commerce driven industry. New York glorifies selling more jeans and T-shirts at the end of the day. It’s about how many variations you can fit in seasons and that’s the design identity. The history of American fashion is being social. It came out of an industry after the war. When clothing stopped being shipped to America essentially is what the necessity grew out of. I think that is inherent in the culture, it’s about trend and fast to market. It’s about the social network that goes around it.

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