{"id":3381,"date":"2009-10-19T08:29:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:07:29","slug":"paris-sends-an-sos-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/style\/fashion\/paris-sends-an-sos-to-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Paris Sends An SOS To The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i13.photobucket.com\/albums\/a295\/Sugoygabba\/Tailor.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"280\" width=\"220\">The small Parisian companies responsible for the custom embroidery, tailoring, etc. found on high-end fashion pieces have cried out for financial help from the French government.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s Prime Minister Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Fillon will meet with government advisers, luxury-goods executives, and artisans to address the financial issues of the country&#8217;s craftsmen.<\/p>\n<p>These small businesses continue to be outsourced to cheaper, less-personal factories in countries where labor is cheap &#8212; a death knell for fashion in the long run. &nbsp;What sets good clothing apart from bad is the time and effort spent on each piece, and with carefully-crafted clothing being replaced by mass-produced products, the artistry and fun in fashion are being lost in translation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125590431567593049.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a> {The Wall Street Journal}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small Parisian companies responsible for the custom embroidery, tailoring, etc. found on high-end fashion pieces have cried out for financial help from the French government. France&#8217;s Prime Minister Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Fillon will meet with government advisers, luxury-goods executives, and artisans to address the financial issues of the country&#8217;s craftsmen. These small businesses continue to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[412,6868,45,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12815,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}