Currently Gareth Pugh’s designs are only available at beyond-exorbitant prices in the world’s highest-end boutiques. A quilted men’s nylon jacket retails for $2,610 at Barneys, for example. But apparently Pugh has been receiving offers to do a fast-fashion line since before he even produced the clothes he showed on the runway (which wasn’t actually that long ago). He tells Style.com of his fast-fashion-line offers:

I have considered it. The offers have come in, and every time we get an offer, I mull it over. I’d like more people to have access to my clothes, but the timing hasn’t been right, or the project hasn’t been right, or some combination of both those things. The first time I was approached, I wasn’t even producing the garments I was showing on the runway. I didn’t have a factory. Everything I was making, I was making by hand. Doing a fast-fashion collection seemed a little premature.

In other words, those companies that asked before, they should keep asking?

Sure, keep asking. And I’ll keep thinking.

This is either a genius or terrible idea. On the one hand, a cardigan made of garbage bags would be so easy for Target or H&M to make cheaply. But on the other hand, no one wants an armor dress made from cardboard.

Sitting Down With Gareth Pugh [Style File/Style.com]

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Lady Gaga attended a press conference in New York today to promote some new headphones to which she’s attaching her name. She wore shades from Alexander Wang’s spring 2010 collection and an outfit that appears to be custom spring 2010 Marc Jacobs. The look didn’t walk Marc’s spring 2010 show, but those ruffles are unmistakable. So Gaga is rolling in merchandising deals and new spring 2010 clothes.

But now that pantslessness has become mainstream, does Lady Gaga need a new shtick?

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A first look at Gareth’s spring 2010 collection. Stay tuned for the complete slideshow.

The Gareth Pugh show just walked in Paris. According to various tweets, editors and buyers liked Pugh’s “soft” spring 2010 approach, which included lots of gray and giant feather hats. This season Pugh stocked his front row with celebrities including Rihanna, Adrian Grenier, and Michael Stipe. Daphne Guinness, of course, was also there, along with Pugh’s backer Michelle Lamy and her husband Rick Owens. Rihanna wore a striped Pugh dress and congratulated him after the show. So she’s finally caught on to the sartorial brilliance Solange introduced Beyoncé to about a year ago. As for Adrian Grenier? Pugh showed menswear along with womenswear in this show, but other than that — and Adrian’s, uh, edgy taste in plaid shirts — it’s unclear what business he had there. [Fashionologie]

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