Enough hands have been wrung about the demise of the Garment District. Its proponents cite rising rents, a city hostile to its needs and outsourcing for its problems and its growing obsolescence. If only the city paid more attention and enforced its zoning regulations, if only established corporations would devote Read more…
I recently attended the Luxury Education Foundation’s Luxury Round Table – a series of conversations where luxury professionals speak to students from Columbia Business School and Parsons the School of Design. The panelists were owners and chief executives of luxury start-ups in New York City and the discussion’s topic was Read more…
This is an article I wrote a while back for Save the Garment Center. Re-reading it, I am struck by how recent events have strengthened my conviction that the Garment Center is vital to the pre-eminence of New York City as a fashion capital. The bid to change the Garment Read more…