We all know fashion folks are unabashed about borrowing good ideas when they see them (how do you think trends happen?), but this doesn’t just apply to cut and colour: it works for money-spinning strategies too! The CFDA just announced they were taking a pge from the British Fashion Council’s playbook (ooh sports metaphors! Gotta love em) and bringing ten of the past CFDA?Fashion Fund finalists to Paris Fashion Week Read more
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Vanessa has been the FT’s fashion editor since 2003, and is based in New York, though she lived in London for 12 years.