As more mass chains — such as Target, which has deals with Isaac Mizrahi and others — produce low-priced designer clothes and accessories, high fashion is becoming more democratic than ever before.
Sitting in his London home, Ford is wearing a pair of Levis and a T-shirt. His T-shirts are always “from Gap or Banana Republic or some underwear label,” he notes. “The idea is that good design should be affordable to all.
“With Target, for example, you go in there and find something that is a great price and wonderful for its intrinsic value. This is democratization of fashion. I love this high-low concept,” he says, adding: “There is all this accessibility — everything is now online.”

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