WWD: Jil Sander RTW Fall 2012

Unless all of the fashion-fascinated money guys, luxury ceo's, retailers and well-heeled women who claim to love fashion are crazy, Raf Simons is going to be just fine. Because he is, quite simply, one of the world's very best designers. He creates some of the most innovative, provocative and chic clothes out there. And, oh yes, did we mention wearable? If his aesthetic can't thrive in the industry's current reality, then fashion has become, like U.S. politics, way too polarized — the luxury giants dominant at one end, feisty fast (and cheap) fashion at the other, with serious alternative voices struggling to be allowed to stand for something nobler than brand-building. For the full review: http://bit.ly/zTTXgN