fashion’s favouritethe high cost of fashion shows is worth every penny to the industrywhat is the point of top-end fashion? An haute cuoture dress can cost more than $100,000. Not surprisingly, there are no more than 2,000 haute cuoture customers in the world. The commercial point is that haute couture is the fashion house’s loss leader. It creates the image of the brand. Someone who would never pay $20000 for a hand-made dress might pay $1000 for an off-the-peg dress with the same designer label-or $50 for its perfumes.Fashion shows may be expensive, but the publicity they generate works out cheaper and more effective than spending $80,000 a page on advertisements in the glossy fashion magazines. One New York consultancy calculates that a 20-minute show, which could cost up to $500000, generates as much publicity as $7m of advertising in american fashion magazines. Most people could never wear the clothes, but the idea is to create buzz. The true capital of fashion is Paris. It is home to the most famous brands, and it has the biggest number of talented designers. France’s fashion and luxury-good industry represents some 2,000 firms, 200,000 jobs and 5% of total intrustrial production. Include the textile intrustry, with 60,000 employees and the share of industrial activity rises to 8%. With advertising, graphic design and media, it all adds up to real economic weight. And France exports much of this output.Có thể Paris tiếp tục là trung tâm của ngành công nghiệp thời trang? nPerhaps New York, với thị trường trong nước rất lớn và tài năng sáng tạo mới, sẽ trở thành trung tâm của thời trang trong tương lai. Nhưng bây giờ, thách thức cho tất cả mọi người là để bán: sau khi tất cả, thời trang là một doanh nghiệp
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