The other night on the TV show Project Runway this designer was one of the judges.
Since these designers charge ungodly prices for their clothes, it makes one wonder how one of them could go bankrupt so fast? You buy a bolt of fabric, sew up a dress (there’s no expensive embellishments on most of Pinto’s designs), you sell the dress for $10k, and then you sew another one. What’s wrong with that picture? She got tons of free publicity from Oprah and Michelle, got written up in all the columns. You’d think that she’d make enough profit to keep her business going more than a year, even if she had to hire the seamstress and the bolt of cloth cost $200.