{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6aecf5265e56bd617c8cabeb/6aecf5415e56bd617c8cbff5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Is Fashion in Total Creative Collapse?","description":"<p>*SUBSCRIBE to the Back Row newsletter for more coverage like this: https://www.backrow.net/subscribe. Go Premium and save three months on an annual subscription.*\n\nIs fashion in the throes of a total creative collapse? Critic Eugene Rabkin — founder of StyleZeitgeist and author of the new book <a href=\"https://amzn.to/4hkJJEh\">Torn: Fashion and Postmodernism</a> — joins Amy to make the case. He argues luxury has \"devolved into a consumerist spectacle,\" its lack of ideas papered over by relentless marketing.\n\nThey get into the greedflation behind a $140,000 Dior dress, why \"craftsmanship\" is the industry's greatest con, the Italian sweatshop scandals that never seem to stick, how Bernard Arnault turned the fashion world into the fashion industry — and the death of criticism, and why nobody seems to care.\n\nCHAPTERS\n00:00 Introduction</p>\n<p>02:30 Fashion's creative collapse: the thesis</p>\n<p>08:30 Greedflation &amp; the $140,000 Dior dress</p>\n<p>13:00 The craftsmanship con </p>\n<p>15:00 Sweatshop scandals: Dior &amp; Loro Piana's vicuña</p>\n<p>23:30 The death of fashion criticism</p>\n<p>32:00 Bernard Arnault &amp; how he industrialized fashion\n\n📺 SUBSCRIBE to the Back Row Newsletter: https://www.backrow.net/subscribe\n\n📷 Follow Back Row on Instagram: @backrow\n📷 Follow Amy on Instagram: @instamyodell\n\nFollow Eugene Rabkin\n📷 Follow Eugene on Instagram: @eugenerabkin\n📚 Buy the book: <a href=\"https://amzn.to/4hkJJEh\">Torn: Fashion and Postmodernism</a>\n\nThis episode was edited by Chrissi Harris.</p>\n<p><br></p><p> </p>","author_name":"Amy Odell"}