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A very interesting question worth exploring and I wish people would adhere to give their point of view if they have had any experience on what is to fail because of the factor....'profits'.... based on the potential to be commercially viable ....
Whatever innovative ideas he / she might contribute with would perhaps be picked up by the stylists of fashion ... with no recognition as a possible reward .. because it is all about the ... money ....I'm afraid...

But in any case, perhaps the answer is , might be... NO.... because as long as he or she cannot produce 'quick' revenues, he or she is simply bound to be destined into oblivion even if he or she have the potential to be excellent fashion movers , but more often than not it takes time, and time and timing is everything in the industry as I see it..... and the industry have no time for time !

If I remember from the opinions I read sometime ago in this very forum.. Gareth Pugh was often unfairly verbally savaged.... because somehow people couldn't understand his thinking and artistic creativity... while he was trying hard to germinate, develop and establish himself in the ever ' schizophrenic' and despotic, whimsical fashion business ....

In any case what is the measure of innovation and/or artistic creativity ?... a new look ?...a new technological development ? a ' new image ' that translates into money by taping into what motivates people at that point in time ? ... and should wearability always paramount artistic creativity in an age where fashion as a matter of fact has become more of a luxury that an actual essential need ?

some people now mixed between fashion and art.
i read the latest POP issue where they interviewed miuccia prada about this, and she said that fashion and art are 2 different things and that fashion should not be called as art. fashion is fashion.

as much as i love "unwearable" fashion from some of the most incredible designers, i think they're still wearable in movies if not in real life :p

hussein chalayan is a very successful fashion artist, but is he a successful fashion designer?

There is a big difference people somehow seem to forget ...... you have FASHION DESIGNERS and you FASHION STYLISTS .... and Tom Ford is the most successful fashion stylist ever as to have become the measure of what people call ' successful ' , but will he ever be remembered for having developed anything ' new ' or ' exciting ' ... personally ,I don't believe so, but he will certainly be remembered for having saved Gucci from total oblivion, and yet that was that !

YSL was a challenge that needed far a lot more than just business savvy and mark strategies ... there are limits and not even super TOM is immune to failure ... whatever that may mean ..:)