Via the ever-popular blog Fashionista, word is that fashion bastion VOGUE magazine is going through a resources overhaul due to advertising numbers being down.
“That magazine needs a shake up in a big, bad way,” writes Abby Gardner. “But this is a good thing. I’ve always found that tighter budgets, in the end, lead to more creative solutions and final products.”
In hospitality and the food industry, budgets are being stirred around as well. In an article titled “The Re-Invention Revolution” for Hospitality Net, Karen Weiner Escalera explains that even the affluent are rediscovering more simple ways to spend, travel and self-express, and as such, products and services are being created to meet these needs. “Fashion mavens attend beading and jewelry design classes, purely for the creative fulfillment of it,” she says. “One Vancouver café is now doubling as an art studio. The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs lets guests dabble in summer camp-style crafts by hosting an ‘all-inclusive art-making weekend,’ with proceeds benefiting Children in the Arts.”
Even if you’re not the paper mache type, it’s clear that despite the field you are in, industries are making shifts to accommodate ever-tightening budgets.
It will probably be a long time before the world experiences characters like Bernie Madoff again, so here’s hoping that out of this Great Recession, our society may cascade into a 21st century Renaissance.
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