Post by tidequeen on Sept 28, 2013 3:19:27 GMT -5
''I can honestly say there's not one person who counts as a fashion creator there (in Texas),'' sniffs a representative of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, an honorary group including such fashion heavies as Oscar de LaRenta and Bill Blass. She quickly amends that statement to add that Dallas evening wear designer Victor Costa does make the grade.
But Mr. Segal suggests that the haute couture's inner circle ''has a perspective that does not go west of the Hudson.'' And its designs arguably don't go much further than the Vogue magazines on America's coffee tables - that is, if practicality and the average consumer's pocketbook are factors.
''We're no longer the polyester capital of the world,'' Mr. Segal explains. ''We're geared to the average woman... we sell to the great Middle America.''
In fact, Mr. Costa, a Texas native and member of the elite Council of Fashion Designers of America, indicates that his line of special-occasion clothes, which retail between $100 and Cheap Oakley Sunglass $300 in places like Lord Taylor and I. Take a suit from Prophecy (a moderate-priced women's line designed and manufactured in Dallas) and put it next to Jones of New York and try to find the difference.'' With only wholesale hats subtle differences in style and quality, she suggests, there is perhaps nothing but name-recognition and price that distinguishes a Texas designer from a New York designer - at least in the eyes of the average consumer. www.shopnewerahats.com
The cosmopolitan swirl that follows wealth has generated a fashion interest in Dallas, whose special tastes have always been catered to by the exclusive Neiman-Marcus department store. But now those tastes are being courted with enough of a variety of retail competition to bankroll the ad linage to support two weekly fashion sections in the city's two daily newspapers. (The Los Angeles Times, by contrast, recently folded its weekly fashion section.)
Further, local apparel industry officials are emphatic in their assertions that Snapback New Era Hats Texas has more consistently wholesale hats well-dressed and fashion-conscious women than even New York City. They also deny that cowboy chic, which integrates every hide imaginable into wearing apparel, is a large force in urban Texas - even though that look happens to be the first thing a visitor notices. www.shopnewerahats.com
However, the number of high-priced boutiques and department store chains flourishing at local shopping malls - like the Houston Galeria, which is one of the nation's most fashionable - indicates there is the interest and the cash here to support a fashion industry of more than just cowboy hats and boots.
But Mr. Segal suggests that the haute couture's inner circle ''has a perspective that does not go west of the Hudson.'' And its designs arguably don't go much further than the Vogue magazines on America's coffee tables - that is, if practicality and the average consumer's pocketbook are factors.
''We're no longer the polyester capital of the world,'' Mr. Segal explains. ''We're geared to the average woman... we sell to the great Middle America.''
In fact, Mr. Costa, a Texas native and member of the elite Council of Fashion Designers of America, indicates that his line of special-occasion clothes, which retail between $100 and Cheap Oakley Sunglass $300 in places like Lord Taylor and I. Take a suit from Prophecy (a moderate-priced women's line designed and manufactured in Dallas) and put it next to Jones of New York and try to find the difference.'' With only wholesale hats subtle differences in style and quality, she suggests, there is perhaps nothing but name-recognition and price that distinguishes a Texas designer from a New York designer - at least in the eyes of the average consumer. www.shopnewerahats.com
The cosmopolitan swirl that follows wealth has generated a fashion interest in Dallas, whose special tastes have always been catered to by the exclusive Neiman-Marcus department store. But now those tastes are being courted with enough of a variety of retail competition to bankroll the ad linage to support two weekly fashion sections in the city's two daily newspapers. (The Los Angeles Times, by contrast, recently folded its weekly fashion section.)
Further, local apparel industry officials are emphatic in their assertions that Snapback New Era Hats Texas has more consistently wholesale hats well-dressed and fashion-conscious women than even New York City. They also deny that cowboy chic, which integrates every hide imaginable into wearing apparel, is a large force in urban Texas - even though that look happens to be the first thing a visitor notices. www.shopnewerahats.com
However, the number of high-priced boutiques and department store chains flourishing at local shopping malls - like the Houston Galeria, which is one of the nation's most fashionable - indicates there is the interest and the cash here to support a fashion industry of more than just cowboy hats and boots.