Bridget Foley’s Diary: Finally, a Change of Pace

“The current emergency…shows that a careful and intelligent slowdown is the only way out.” So said Giorgio Armani in an open letter to WWD published on April 6. Armani wrote in response to an April 2 article in WWD in which numerous other designers discussed what they thought the ultimate impact of the coronavirus might be on the fashion industry. The consensus, voiced in different ways, agreement with Armani — a significant scaling back and slowing down are inevitable and necessary. Armani has long been a vocal critic of many fashion practices. In fact, many of his particular pet peeves were widely shared before COVID-19 brought the issue into sharp relief, as for years he — along with countless others at all levels of the industry — have opined that it had all become too much. Yet it all rolls on, or it rolled on, until just a few weeks ago: A whirl of fashion prizes for the young; extravagant, itinerant shows from the mighty, and in between a dizzying blur of shows, merch, nonstop deliveries, feverish social media, one season rolling into the next with no separation, no breathing time, no respite from “what’s next.” The result: communal exhaustion, leaving scant

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