Here’s what happened years ago, before I wrote this.
1. The slow realization
I knew my corporate fashion marriage was over when I started designing for a season I hadn’t even lived through yet. Summer bags in January. Fall colors in April. I was sketching for a woman who didn’t exist yet, in a moment that hadn’t arrived, for a trend report that clashed with my creativity. That’s when I realized — this wasn’t a creative partnership. It was an arranged marriage.
2. The dinner table moment
Have you ever sat at a dinner table pretending everything is fine while internally drafting your exit plan? That was me with the fashion calendar. Smiling at “Resort drops.” Nodding at “Pre-Fall capsules.” Meanwhile, I was exhausted. Not from designing — from keeping up with "what’s in.”
I could care less, as I saw myself as a human being
who so happen to wear what she wants at any time.
3. The corporate wake-up call
The moment I knew I wanted out was when someone asked me, “What’s your Q3 launch strategy?” I’m an artist. Not a quarterly earnings report. That question told me everything. I wasn’t building legacy pieces. I was feeding a fashion giant.
4. The closet test
I opened my own closet one day and saw last season’s “trends” sitting there like a ghost of a corporate stylist’s past. That’s when I knew — the calendar wasn’t serving anyone. It was consuming me and those who I was creating it for.
AND NOW— LET’S GET TO TODAY’S ARTICLE- LK💋
Why I’m Divorcing the Fashion Calendar
Americans are the #1 spenders of luxury handbags | 90% went overseas to conglomerates.
There’s a certain kind of silence that falls over a room when you hear someone say they lost millions dollars. Even if it’s not your money, it still hits.
Then comes that quiet tickle, the one that makes you want to start asking questions.
I get tickled as an American Designer when I’m compared to Hermès and Chanel — and writing this now — because I’m done being compared as an artist to conglomerates.
Here are three reasons why I’m burning the furniture of my arranged marriage to the fashion calendar — even after I already walked down the aisle as an American Designer.
