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A comment on Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed. Parent comment

Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by nemothekid on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:18PM (#24102995)
You are conflating high fashion and fast fashion. High fashion doesn't go out of style every 6 months. Louis Vuitton still sells the same Monogram purse that they did 10 years ago, likewise my aunt has several $1000+ handbags she has owned for 20+ years. Your comment about high fashion going out of style every 6 months is just untrue, and to the other posters point just highlights the myopic lens in which software engineers view fashion.

Also, the NY article is not about fast fashion (Zara, H&M), it's about high fashion (Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga, Alexander Wang).

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Re:Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed by mthoms on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:43PM (#24103175)
High fashion sets the trends (and the 6 month cycle) that the fast fashion outlets follow. When talking about negative influence on society and the environment they're pretty inseparable.

I agree I could have made the distinction between high and fast fashion clearer in my comment though.

For the record, the handbag example is an extreme outlier and not at all illustrative of the how the industry actually functions (makes money).

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