Is the fashion industry computerphobic?
Filed under: Style in the News
As it turns out yes, the fashion industry is pretty much the anti-Internet. The International Herald Times put out an article about the top dogs in the fashion industry and their fear (well more like avoidance) of the Internet. Just typing about it gives me the willies, it would be a cold day in hell before you could pry my MacBook away from me. Here are some top designers and their examples of computerphobia:
Marc Jacobs: "I do know how to Google. And I've even had a relationship from the Internet. But I can't sync up with my iPod; I don't know how to use Photoshop and machines break around me."
Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga: "No, I am not really Internet - but I just got a BlackBerry."
Karl Lagerfeld: "I don't use a computer; I do research with my brain, and if I want or need to - I get people to do it for me."
Elbaz: "I open my imagination to push me forward, a computer is about getting into a formula - and that is the biggest danger to the imagination. I work with my heart and write with my brain, you take the knowledge but go forward with your feeling, your instinct. Above all, you have to start and end with the dream."
Prada: "I don't use the Internet - it is all in my imagination, if I want to see something they have to show me the sites. For me it is fundamental, today the computer can do everything fake. But the imagination is endless."Dolce & Gabbana: Dolce has never used a computer, where Gabbana uses one twice a week.
Yikes, call me crazy but for me going without the Internet is like going without air. Not all designers are
Amen Robert Polet! What do you all think, could you live without the Internet?
