Comments on: Fashion! http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=6235 Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:48:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CosmicConservative http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=6235&cpage=1#comment-493638 CosmicConservative Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:17:35 +0000 http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=6235#comment-493638 Touche Touche

]]> By: Bob Hawkins http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=6235&cpage=1#comment-493633 Bob Hawkins Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:45:12 +0000 http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=6235#comment-493633 They explained the fashion industry on CNBC one day while I was watching my life savings do a random walk. This is it: Fashion designers are harvesters of free publicity. They design crazy stuff because the news media will pick it up and publicize their name for free. They monetize the free publicity by then licensing their name for mass-produced, relatively sensible clothes and accessories. The purpose of the scaffolding was to get the words "Victoria's Secret" on your blog. And it worked. They explained the fashion industry on CNBC one day while I was watching my life savings do a random walk. This is it: Fashion designers are harvesters of free publicity. They design crazy stuff because the news media will pick it up and publicize their name for free. They monetize the free publicity by then licensing their name for mass-produced, relatively sensible clothes and accessories.

The purpose of the scaffolding was to get the words “Victoria’s Secret” on your blog. And it worked.

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