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At New York Fashion Week, Fashion’s Next Status Symbol Is Proof

Quince’s Dakota Kate Isaacs unpacks how fashion’s traditional relationship between status, price and brand mythology is changing. Isaacs argues that fashion’s next status symbol will be proof: the ability to understand what a product is made of, how it was made, why it costs what it costs and whether the story around it can withstand scrutiny.
By Dakota Kate Isaacs

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