Although this sheer story started with the avant-garde, now even the fashion establishment is making indecent proposals.
Pamela Dennis, 33, a designer known for her glamorous dresses, is not a darling of the fashion establishment.
Street markets have an energizing effect on the fashion establishment as well.
He rose to prominence in the late 1970's, determined to shake the fashion establishment to its very roots.
The French fashion establishment is coming apart at the seams.
The French fashion establishment "treated you like a queen," she said.
In their early "pre-fall" collections, these major European designers have not attempted to rock the fashion establishment.
But most of all his comments reflected a defensiveness toward a fashion establishment that rarely took him seriously.
His success in the fashion establishment has been a more tenuous affair.
It has also been picked up by the fashion establishment as the last word in high style.