Designs for 99%
Fashion is increasing consumer spending throughout the world. Recently, we ( meaning me because I am the entire healthy staff at Mildred Brignoni Productions ) helped designers achieve sales CADS - computer aid designs
- for a few companies that primarily sell to both Europe and Latin America. I suppose their presence isn't known here in the US because our 1% buyers of Saks and Macy's don't want to pay their mark ups, prefer to buy items made in Asian countries for cheap labor, or simply don't like them. In any case, while I too am a Latina born and raised in the communities of Southern California, I grew up wearing Vans, Jeans and the occasional frilly get up my mother put me in. To please her, I accepted her notion that I was first Latina but born in the US, and let me not forget it! I suited both of us mother and daughter, by appeasing her in a costume of original Guatemalan colorful skirts, but I deliberately insisted on wearing my VANS to show her I was an individual. It showed, I would present myself properly from roots planted simultaneously in the diversity of Latin American and United States cultures.
Apparently Americans are clamoring to be the 99%. We search anything that identities ourselves as not the 1%, so we wear fashion that makes us think of the past, our ancestors but uniquely American. Yet, doesn't it seem odd that we want to make things here. Sorry to be the bad guy here- but its hard to make that possible if we want the dye from indigo made from their original habitats. Although, I can appreciate the US involvement in producing accessible fashions for other countries in hopes to design styles for everybody to boost their small businesses as well as aid the global economy. Latin American countries, in particular, embrace our iconic casual style of denim. Levis Strauss finally came back to their roots in terms of fashion collections and they purchased back the majority of shares from the Chinese ( Thank Goodness - because it was looking Fugly there for a while ). Designers from established companies such as the great Donna Karan, to the newbies from as far west as Alabama create designs that mirror our need for comfort but signature American. The United States produces more pop cultural phenomenons than any other country. We trump all denim designers around the world including those that produce the textiles and washes, because we are able to tap on freedom of expression, or at the very least attempt to stand for the rest of us- the 99%. A business man I recently met said he admired my attempt to do something entrepreneurial because he himself doesn't want to be the 1% anymore. Cute but so real. I like the fashion from Paris to the Peru, but I adore our designs because we are able to try and fail. In all modes, If its a southwestern look - to finish our love of traditional cowboys, or the hip nostalgia of the Blondie Era and the original Guess Jeans - in acid wash, I love all things made and started in the USA.
America is still the land of the freedom and of opportunity.
- for a few companies that primarily sell to both Europe and Latin America. I suppose their presence isn't known here in the US because our 1% buyers of Saks and Macy's don't want to pay their mark ups, prefer to buy items made in Asian countries for cheap labor, or simply don't like them. In any case, while I too am a Latina born and raised in the communities of Southern California, I grew up wearing Vans, Jeans and the occasional frilly get up my mother put me in. To please her, I accepted her notion that I was first Latina but born in the US, and let me not forget it! I suited both of us mother and daughter, by appeasing her in a costume of original Guatemalan colorful skirts, but I deliberately insisted on wearing my VANS to show her I was an individual. It showed, I would present myself properly from roots planted simultaneously in the diversity of Latin American and United States cultures.Apparently Americans are clamoring to be the 99%. We search anything that identities ourselves as not the 1%, so we wear fashion that makes us think of the past, our ancestors but uniquely American. Yet, doesn't it seem odd that we want to make things here. Sorry to be the bad guy here- but its hard to make that possible if we want the dye from indigo made from their original habitats. Although, I can appreciate the US involvement in producing accessible fashions for other countries in hopes to design styles for everybody to boost their small businesses as well as aid the global economy. Latin American countries, in particular, embrace our iconic casual style of denim. Levis Strauss finally came back to their roots in terms of fashion collections and they purchased back the majority of shares from the Chinese ( Thank Goodness - because it was looking Fugly there for a while ). Designers from established companies such as the great Donna Karan, to the newbies from as far west as Alabama create designs that mirror our need for comfort but signature American. The United States produces more pop cultural phenomenons than any other country. We trump all denim designers around the world including those that produce the textiles and washes, because we are able to tap on freedom of expression, or at the very least attempt to stand for the rest of us- the 99%. A business man I recently met said he admired my attempt to do something entrepreneurial because he himself doesn't want to be the 1% anymore. Cute but so real. I like the fashion from Paris to the Peru, but I adore our designs because we are able to try and fail. In all modes, If its a southwestern look - to finish our love of traditional cowboys, or the hip nostalgia of the Blondie Era and the original Guess Jeans - in acid wash, I love all things made and started in the USA.
America is still the land of the freedom and of opportunity.
Posted by SmartyPants at 11/15/2011 1:45 PM 
Categories: Brands, women's wear, Designers, New york fashion, Trends, made in the USA, Street Fashion, Luxury designers, Streetscene, technology, retail, People, sytling
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Categories: Brands, women's wear, Designers, New york fashion, Trends, made in the USA, Street Fashion, Luxury designers, Streetscene, technology, retail, People, sytling
Tags: technology Fashion in NYC Luxury Designer new york fashion Style fashion trends for fall 80s fashion flash backs Donna Karen Karl Lagerfeld new york fashion week 2010
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