The Daily Nar Doesn't Get Fashion

The Daily Nar gets invited to all sorts of weird events. Last night, we were "lucky" enough to be invited to the Elle Canada/TFI Fashion Incubator somethingerrather. Personally, we were there for the wine tasting, but the fashion made the ladies happy. Met some nice people, including OPS staffers, OLP employees, PhD students, some guy who worked out at the gym way too much and didn't wear a shirt under his v-neck sweater, and market researchers.

But here's what I dont' get: most of the things you see on the runway never makes it to stores. The designers "normalize" their designs to a more practical or wearable version for sales in stores. So my question is, what the heck is the point of a fashion show if it's not showing you what you may be able to buy. Some responses I received to that question last night included "its so you can see the creativity of the designer". Well hell, if that's all it is, with no expectation of following through with crap in stores, I could do that. I could design what I think is the weirdest, wackiest, avant-garde shit; with socks on your head and upside down skirts, and call it art, if that's all it takes.

However, I suspect that it takes a little more than that.