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'Opinion: Don\'t Punish Marchesa for Harvey Weinstein\'s Sins: http://www.instyle.com/news/marchesa-harvey-weinstein-comeback. Thanks for watching, subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCStnChYQHsa2Uhl-y121BdQ?sub_confirmation=1 The first collection I ever saw, in the mid-aughts, was an informal presentation of gowns of untold yards of lace and ethereal tulle, shown in—as I recall—a shabby series of rooms during fall New York Week. This was several years before the label’s grand runways in the gilt ballroom at the Plaza. One of the designers, named Georgina Chapman, seemed shy and nervous. The other, Keren Craig, was more talkative. I thought that would need a broader offering than romantic ball gowns, but the narrow focus turned out to be part of its genius. Over the following decade, took over the red carpets at the Oscars, , and endless film premiers. The gowns were universally flattering, intricate, and stunning. They weren’t particularly artistic or challenging or “directional”—the sort of work that creates legendary designers. They were just beautifully designed and perfectly executed, that’s all. Getty Images It didn’t take much dot-connecting to notice that stars of Miramax films, backed by Chapman’s loutish husband , wore a lot of in those years. This was not openly discussed among the editors and publicists in the fashion swirl. Rhapsodizing about gowns was a matter of course. Mentioning their success with Weinstein-backed celebrities was impolite. Paul Bruinooge/Getty Images There were then—and still are—lots of things going on in the fashion industry that insiders mentioned only in whispers if at all—unpaid internships, rampant ual harassment, and the over-ualization of youngsters posing as artistic expression. The taboo was broken last fall with the widespread allegations of Weinstein’s ual misconduct over many years. Suddenly, fashion industry insiders were outraged—outraged I say!—that celebrities had been pressured to wear gowns, unfairly benefiting the fashion label. The same people who had been extolling ’s virtues—and could not possibly have failed to know Weinstein was involved in the label’s success on the red carpet—now had their pitchforks out. Getty Images Chapman went into , the label canceled its fall runway show in February, and awards season passed without a single gown on the red carpet. Suddenly, celebrities were forced not to wear , or risk being called out as complicit with Weinstein’s alleged abuse. ’s dresses suffered more than Miramax’s films: Boycotts of Miramax films failed to emerge and no one was suggesting that Netflix should drop Shakespeare in Love from its library. One of the many things that 2017 revealed is the many forms of misogyny embedded in all our hearts and brains. Co-founder Keren Craig and the 80-some other employees of the atelier in New York’s shrinking garment industry—assuredly most of them women—were caught in the backlash. Sins of the husband are often visited upon the wife—or in this case, the soon-to-be-ex-wife, her partner, and their employees. They have’t been evenly applied even among wives. has a growing fan club, though her strongest public protest against her husban #Opinion, #PunishMarchesa, #HarveyWeinstein, #Sins #News, #latestCelebrityHarveyWeinsteinMarchesa'
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