Oscar de la Renta is fed up. This season, the designer is slashing the number of invites that will be sent out for his Spring ’14 show—a move that follows his choice to host two back-to-back shows last season in order to accommodate more guests. “It’s important for [certain industry professionals] to look at the clothes and see them. They shouldn’t have to go through 30,000 people, and 10,000 who are trying to take pictures of all of those people who are totally unrelated to the clothes,” the designer told WWD. “When you do megashows, it loses the reason of why we’re showing…Why have 20 million people with zero connection to the clothes?” he added. A fashion show that focuses solely on the new collection? What an incredibly novel (and dare we say welcomed) concept.
