Comments on: Dumbing Down American Design, Part 2 https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 By: Dumbing Down American Design, part 3 | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/#comment-36671 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:06:08 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=37899#comment-36671 […] part three of Dumbing Down American Design, we talk with Han Lee, owner of Fine Line Production, a company that does everything from pattern […]

]]> By: Amy DuFault https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/#comment-15492 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:44:06 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=37899#comment-15492 Hopefully there’s going to be a movement back to that Lora. We had to dumb ourselves down for a few decades or so before we realized it.

]]> By: Lora K. https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/#comment-15447 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:47:06 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=37899#comment-15447 I wish US garment manufacturers could use technology to keep up with the competitive pricing from overseas. Yes, the currency value makes it tough. But maybe they can make up for it with quality and innovation? NYC needs the garment district to keep its creative cred. That’s for darn (yuk yuk) sure.

]]> By: Amy DuFault https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/#comment-15409 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:12:05 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=37899#comment-15409 Oh Celeste! I know I’ve heard you swear before 😉
Thank Melissa. I know you work hard too and have lived this roller coaster reality for the two years or so I’ve known you.
Keep fighting the fight!

]]> By: Melissa Baswell https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/#comment-15289 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:18:10 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=37899#comment-15289 Really great piece Amy, on an incredibly important subject that needs to be addressed more often. As a designer, producing in the U.S. has always been a #1 priority, from a sustainability standpoint of course, but also as a means of preserving an art form that once thrived here. Quality, technique, and fashion-as-art are disappearing and being replaced with fast, formless garments that are treated as disposable. It’s up to both consumers and designers to really look at what it means when production is sent overseas in order to save a buck.

And I LOVE this quote, because it’s reality –

“When I go talk to young designers now, I tell them, the idea of being a designer has to be as important to you as breathing. If you’re not prepared to be poor, if you’re not prepared to be a nobody, if you’re not prepared to make a difference then don’t f*cking do it.”

]]> By: Sara Ost https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/#comment-15273 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:18:27 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=37899#comment-15273 From one Lilore to another!

]]> By: Celeste Lilore https://ecosalon.com/dumbing-down-american-design-part-2/#comment-15239 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:59:24 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=37899#comment-15239 Anger must be like fuel to you, 2 curses in one paragraph!

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