LATEST AND GREATEST: After discussing her new book “The International Best Dressed List: The Official Story” Thursday night in SoHo, Amy Fine Collins and her inquisitor Simon Doonan fielded a few questions from the audience. Asked to name the next great American designer, Doonan said, “I don’t think it works that way anymore. The fashion landscape is 50 billion times bigger than it ever was.…Now the fashion landscape is basically infinite. It’s more about that. There isn’t one person driving it. There isn’t a Calvin Klein or a Tom Ford. It doesn’t seem to work that way anymore. There are many, many voices.”
Collins agreed, “Yes, there’s a multiplicity. There is too much. Fashion is too crowded to name a single person right now,” she said. “Someone like Wes Gordon at Carolina Herrera is very much poised to take off in a bigger way, but within the confines of the larger label.”
Doonan made the point that fashion is now more about brands like Supreme, which “has the most cojones in terms of driving sales.” That said, he believes there will always be eccentric people, who are dedicated to the craft of fashion. “There are people who are still doing that. Zac
Collins agreed, “Yes, there’s a multiplicity. There is too much. Fashion is too crowded to name a single person right now,” she said. “Someone like Wes Gordon at Carolina Herrera is very much poised to take off in a bigger way, but within the confines of the larger label.”
Doonan made the point that fashion is now more about brands like Supreme, which “has the most cojones in terms of driving sales.” That said, he believes there will always be eccentric people, who are dedicated to the craft of fashion. “There are people who are still doing that. Zac
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