NY Fashionweek Fall 09: GIDC 25th Anniversary

Posted by fashionentrepreneurreport On Monday, February 16, 2009

Garment Industry Development Corporation turned 25 and all were out to celebrate.

With a show at the historic Hudson Theater, theatrics were in huge play, which was a bit of a shame, because that overshadowed the beautiful clothes. Here is the thing… for emerging designers, originality is key but when each talent is only allowed to show 5 pieces and in between the names are switched by some feather-laden pin-up the clothing is overshadowed. We liked the idea of the backstage access by way of the scrim separating the stage from the runway and some of the garments were quite pretty. The problem is that not one name was remembered, there were no programs and therefore what started as a “wow, that dress is draped very beautifully across the body” turned into, which designer did I like enough to write about again. I hope there post-event opportunities for the audience to actually learn more about the designers, like even a follow-up e-mail because although the pieces were easily retailable, we have no idea how to get in touch with any of the designers who created them.