FASHION INDUSTRY NEWS – WEDNESDAY

Good morning designers!  The Wednesday edition of the StylePortfolios.com Daily Fix is up and ready for your reading pleasure.  What are you waiting for?  Get a coffee, sit-down and get your day started-off right with the The Daily Fix…

LUXURY GOODS GROUP LVMH SAYS SLOWDOWN IN CHINA HAS AFFECTED SALES – The Guardian
“LVMH has became the first major luxury goods provider to say the stock market collapse in China over the summer has affected sales, particularly at its flagship Louis Vuitton brand.”

WHEN ACTIVEWEAR HAS NO ACTIVITY – The New York Times
“See-through yoga pants were the least of the problem. A gulf is ever widening between the days when proper grown-ups dressed in clothes requiring the dexterity to zip a zipper and an increasingly unsightly present, when an awful lot of adult garments are designed along the same overall principle as Pull-Ups.”

SHOULD FASHION BE POLITICALLY CORRECT? – The New York Times
“First there was heroin chic. Then there was poverty chic. And now comes … migrant chic? It sounds too distasteful to contemplate.”

IS CHRISTIAN SIRIANO THE NEXT BILLION DOLLAR DESIGNER? – Yahoo!
“Awards night in Hollywood, any awards, can be daunting for a designer. Unless you have paid a starlet to wear your wares, it’s impossible for even the savviest of celebrity wranglers to guarantee that your dress will make an appearance on the red carpet. It’s commonplace to hear of designers whipping up custom gowns—occasionally couture!—only for an actress and her stylist to swipe it out for something off-the-rack at the last minute.”

DONALD J. PLINER TO OPEN HOME FURNISHINGS STORE IN MIAMI – Footwear News
“Footwear designer Donald J. Pliner is applying his fashion sensibilities to the home furnishings market with the opening of  Coming Home, a store of home furnishings, unique objects and art designed and curated by Pliner and his wife, fellow designer, Lisa Pliner.”