"Women have an emotional response to the clothes," said Jaqui Lividini, the fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, where Chloé sales have been healthy.
A gifted designer like Miuccia Prada can generate an emotional response to her clothes by connecting them to available ideas in culture, but she's not really dealing in new design ideas.
The models were in cropped trousers with dusty pastel tops and many variations of cobweb sweaters, some of them spilling off the models' shoulders, and they walked with a twisting action in their hips as if to elicit a more heightened sexual response to the clothes.
They had that "common tendency to showiness, eagerness to amuse, eclectic taste with particular response to architecture, clothes-consciousness, the horror of the dim".
Still, her initial response to the mention of clothes strikes me as a bit hyperbolic.
Bolland brought in a new design team two years ago fronted by former Debenhams chief executive Belinda Earl as style director in response to criticism that the clothes were too frumpy.
In response to these threatening social shifts, clothes changed to differentiate boys from their mothers and from girls in general.
The company said the drop was caused by a significant decline in customer traffic and a weak response to its spring and summer clothes.
In response to rising wages, production (of clothes, for example) is shifting from China to South-East Asia and Africa, led by Japanese firms which are also worried about a war with the Middle Kingdom.
Many in the sold-out crowd of over 13,000 wore evening clothes in response to Smythe's stated goal in building the arena.
