Mark Your Calendar: Fashion's Night Out
Usually, we at UnBeige devote September 10th to celebrating the birthday of Georges Bataille (he would be 112 this year), but this year we’ll dispense with the eye-shaped gâteau to take part in Fashion’s Night Out, a Vogue-sponsored global initiative “to promote retail, restore consumer confidence, and celebrate fashion.” Surely Bataille, who had much to say about consumption and festivals, would have approved.
“It was an idea that was generated during the [fall] Paris collections in response to the tidal wave of negativity and uncertainty that Anna Wintour perceived among people in the industry and among her colleagues in retail,” explains Sally Singer, Vogue‘s director of fashion news and features.
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