It comes with a heavy heart to report New York Fashion Week has packed up its accessories and rolled up the carpets until next year.
I'm afraid I can't fill you in on the week's highlights, the new fashion trends to expect at your local shopping mall, who threw the wildest parties, and which Runway show turned the most heads.
Somehow, the invitation never reached my mailbox; but it's all for best, since my idea of fashion row is the men's department at Wal- Mart.
But for those who might be interested in pursuing a career in the fashion industry, fashion designers median annual salary, averages $55,840, the highest 10 percent make more than $112, 840, the lowest 10 percent sinks to $27, 970, and the middle of the pack hovers around $38,000, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Plenty, it seems, have caught the fashion bug as a career choice, approximately 250 postsecondary institutions with programs in design are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
The same fashion fever has gripped Western Europe as well.
Simon Ungless, Director of Graduate Fashion at the Academy of Art University informs me that over 5000 designers graduated from fashion schools last year in the UK.
If I were teaching at one of these elite fashion shools, I would graduate any student summa cum laude who is able to give Rosie O'Donnell and Bill Belichick a fashion renovation
-Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net
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