Oct '07: Fashion warms to reality of climate change

"The whole fashion system will have to change," Beppe Modenese, founder of Milan Fashion Week, told The New York Times last week.

"The fashion system must adapt to the reality that there is no strong difference between summer and winter any more… You can't have everyone showing four times a year to present the same thing. People are not prepared to invest in these clothes that, from one season to the other, use the same fabrics at the same weight."

Now: "Bitter cold" driving some to buy fur coats

...But December, 2008, was actually better than December, 2007. The Magders guess that the bitter winter is driving some to fur.