首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Making a Loss Is the Height of Fashion Given that a good year in the haute couture(高级定制女装)business is one where you lose eve
Making a Loss Is the Height of Fashion Given that a good year in the haute couture(高级定制女装)business is one where you lose eve
admin
2013-08-24
23
问题
Making a Loss Is the Height of Fashion
Given that a good year in the haute couture(高级定制女装)business is one where you lose even more money than usual, the prevailing mood in Paris last week was sensational. The big-name designers were falling over themselves to boast of how many outfits they had sold at below cost price, and how this proved that the fashion business was healthier than ever. Jean-Paul Gaultier reported record sales. "but we don’t make any money out of it, " the designer assured journalists backstage. "No matter how successful you are, you can’t make a profit from couture, " explained Jean—Jacques Picart, a veteran fashion PR man, and co-founder of the now-bankrupt Lacroix house.
Almost 20 years have passed since the unusual economics of the couture business were first exposed. Outraged that he was losing money on evening dresses costing tens of thousands of pounds, the couturier Jean-Louis Scherrer published a detailed summary of his costs. One outfit he described curtained over half a mile of gold thread, 18, 000 sequins(亮片), and had required hundreds of hours of hand-stitching in an atelier(制作室). A fair price would have been £50, 000, but the couturier could only get £35, 000 for it. Rather than riding high on the foolishness of the super-rich, he and his team could barely feed their hungry families.
The result was an outcry and the first of a series of government-and industry—sponsored inquiries into the surreal(超现实的)world of ultimate fashion. The trade continues to insist that couture offers you more than you pay for, but it’s not as simple as that. When such a temple of old wealth starts talking about value for money, it isn’t to convince anyone that dresses costing as much as houses are a bargain. Rather, it is to preserve the peculiar mystique(神秘), lucrative(利润丰厚的)associations and threatened interests that couture represents.
Essentially, the arguments couldn’t be simpler. On one side are those who say that the business will die if it doesn’t change. On the other are those who say it will die if it does. What’s not in doubt is that haute couture—the term translates as "high sewing"—is highly dated. Huge in its costs, tiny in its clientele and questionable in its influence, it still remains one of the great themes of Parisian life. In his book, The Fashion Conspiracy, Nicholas Coleridge estimates that the entire couture industry rests on the whims(一时兴起)of less than 30 immensely wealthy women, and although the number may have grown in recent years with the new prosperity of Asia, the number of couture customers worldwide is no more than 4, 000.
To qualify as couture, a garment must be entirely handmade by one of the 11 Paris couture houses registered to the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Each house must employ at least 20 people, and show a minimum of 75 new designs a year. So far, so traditional, but the Big Four operators— Chanel, Dior, Givenchy and Gaultier—increasingly use couture as a marketing device for their far more profitable ready-to-wear, fragrance and accessory lines.
According to the second paragraph, Jean-Louis Scherrer
选项
A、was in a worse financial position than other couturiers.
B、was very angry as he was losing money.
C、was one of the best-know couturiers.
D、stopped producing haute couture dresses.
答案
A
解析
根据第二段,让.路易.雪莱与其他女装设计师相比经济情况差。短文第二段最后一句话提到“可笑的是,他和他的团队并没有站到巨富的前列,而是只能勉强养家糊口”,故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ngUd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语综合类A级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语综合类A级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
ScienceandTruth"FINAGLE"(欺骗)isnotawordthatmostpeopleassociatewithscience.Onereasonisthattheimageofthes
ScienceandTruth"FINAGLE"(欺骗)isnotawordthatmostpeopleassociatewithscience.Onereasonisthattheimageofthes
A.thevolunteersdoB.becauseshedoesnothaveaweightproblemC.becausethelifetherecanbeveryboringD.make
StopSpamWhenIfirstgotane-mailaccounttenyearsago,Ireceivedcommunicationsonlyfromfamily,friends,andcolleagu
TheRoleofPressureGroupsInBritainGeneralElectionsinBritainareusuallyheldonlyonceeveryfiveyears.Governmentscan
I’mafraidthatyourdaughterhasfailedtogetthroughhermid-termexams.
BeforetheCivilWar,FrederickDouglass’editorialsfortheNorthStarurgedrespectfortherightsofallpeople.
TheWorldTableTennisChampionshipsattractsthemostinterestinAsiancountries.ThePanathenianStadiumisthelandmarkbui
Mostparentsthesedayshavetorelyontheirforceofpersonalityandwhateverloveandrespecttheycaninspireto(31)anyin
随机试题
设D是由曲线y=x2与直线y=ax(a>0)所围成的平面图形,已知D分别绕两坐标轴旋转一周所形成的旋转体的体积相等,试求:(1)常数x的值;(2)平面图形D的面积.
A.无痛性肉眼血尿B.肉眼血尿伴肾绞痛C.初始血尿D.终末血尿伴膀胱刺激征肾结核的血尿特点是
下列哪项不是十枣汤的用法()
外阴局部受伤时易形成血肿的部位是
在民事诉讼中,对于经过法定程序公证证明的法律行为、法律事实和文书,人民法院如何对待?()
根据我国《票据法》,无票据更改权人的下列行为中属于票据变造行为的是()。
内部控制由()信息与沟通等五个要素组成。
下列属于衍生金融产品的是()。
如果一个人同时戴两块手表,可能会觉得不______,因为他不知道该相信哪一块手表;如果在一个企业里出现两种不同的标准,则必将让员工______。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项是()。
身为一半的江南人,第一次看见莲,却在植物园的小莲池畔。那是十月中旬,夏末秋初,已凉未寒,迷迷蒙蒙的雨丝,①沾湿了满地的香红,但不曾淋熄荧荧的烛焰,那景象,豪艳之中别有一派凄清。那天独冲烟雨,原要去破庙中寻访画家刘国松,画家不在,画在,我迷失在画中,到现在还
最新回复
(
0
)