Another Fashion Week just wrapped up in New York City, but the real future of fashion was not necessarily happening on runways shimmering under the flash bulbs at Lincoln Center. In all business ecosystems, power and hierarchy tend to suppress the most interesting innovations. And so it is in the fashion business, too. When a nod or a grimace from the editor of Vogue is enough to make or break a new designer, you know the ecosystem is not functioning all that efficiently for everyone.
Thus, I am fascinated by how an emerging company—Nolcha Fashion Week—has become a hot incubator of new fashion design talent. Think of it as the “other” fashion week. It’s the equivalent of being off-Broadway (or even off-off-Broadway), a place where the cool, unexpected stuff is allowed to sprout and grow, away from the traditional gatekeepers.
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