Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.
There is nothing "useful" about fashion, which is why it is fashion and not clothes. My personal opinion about the runway is that it should be used to whisk the audience off to a fantasy world that is possible, but not probably. It should delight and inspire.
Clothes are incredibly symbolic.
How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?
I'm not a vintage/thrift shop girl. I don't have the patience.
Sometimes those who bloom too early fade fast. Michael Kors struggled for years - and endured bankruptcy - before he became all rich and famous and fabulous.