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Article: Will They End Up Fashion Victims?; As top designers size up the economy, their fear is . . .
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- The Washington Post
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- February 10, 2009
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Designer Carmen Marc Valvo, measuring tape draped around his
neck, searches under a pile of glossy fashion photographs, coffee-
table books and swatches of expensive lace for tangible evidence of
his anxiety about the economic recession and its effect on his
industry -- one that peddles luxuries, dreams and frippery. Valvo
pulls out a stack of pencil sketches done during his recent Costa
Rican vacation and spreads them on his desk. There lies his
original, angst-ridden vision for fall 2009.
"It was going to be a SoHo-hobo collection," Valvo says. "It was
going to be all crazy patchwork made from recycled fabric, worn with
fingerless, homeless gloves and construction boots. It was going ...