{"id":13149,"date":"2010-06-17T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T17:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2010-06-17T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T17:45:38","slug":"kelly-cutrone-on-luxury-fashion-forget-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/kelly-cutrone-on-luxury-fashion-forget-it","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Cutrone on Luxury Fashion: ‘Forget It.’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here is what Kelly Cutrone has to say to luxury fashion labels and retailers desperately trying to understand the youth market <\/a>to stay afloat into the future: don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste your time.<\/p>\n The PR CEO start of Bravo TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kell on Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d spoke to a small group of editorial interns, fashion-obsessed youngsters and public relations entrepreneurs at the Bryant Park Reading Room Series Wednesday, and she had a quite frank earful on the future of fashion, replying to a girl asking about where to look for a career in the field by saying:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Style is in; fashion luxury, forget it. It’s over. Gucci, Vuitton, Hermes … all those places are really great, go for it. That business exists in a city called Paris, France. That’s where that is. Those businesses will continue. Retail business, pretty much over. I think people who sell to retail companies are people who can’t afford their own stores \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Old Navy, J.Crew, Gap … they already knew that and aren’t wholesaling. Editorial, magazine, we are going to say buh-bye to them as we know them. They will still exist but everything is on the internet.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d {The Cut<\/a>, Racked NY<\/a>}<\/p>\n On the one hand, tell us how you really feel, Kell. On the other, Bravo Kelly! She may be over dramatizing a tad in regards to luxury and retail being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pretty much over,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but it is about time someone spoke up about the hard realities facing fashion, especially in the editorial department. Times are changing, and if the dominant players in the industry want to continue to grow their businesses, they need to learn to adapt.<\/p>\n