How Smartphones Are Killing Off the Fashion Show
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The system of showing clothes on a runway, then selling them in stores six months later, seems increasingly irrelevant in the age of social media.
NYTIMES.COM|BY VANESSA FRIEDMAN
How Smartphones Are Killing Off the Fashion Show