This 90-minute program is scheduled to stream on YouTube and Facebook Live at 12:00 noon EST on Saturday, Decemas the fifth installment of The HistoryMakers 20 Days and 20 Nights Convening and Celebration. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, anmd licensing to image making and financing.

Tune in to this incredible panel to learn more about this fascinating and little-known history. Booktopia has The End of Fashion, How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever by Terri Agins. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. I was pleased to see several names that I recognized and admired such as Chanel, Mugler and Galliano. The discussion also features a Q&A session with questions from The HistoryMakers StyleMakers Advisory Committee. The End of Fashion: Chapter 1 Summary Prior to reading the first chapter of The End of Fashion by Teri Agins, I was unfamiliar with the foundation of the French Fashion world and how it became what it is today. Joining Agins are the legendary fashion show producer, Audrey Smaltz, successful menswear and home décor designer and author, Jeffrey Banks, and Assistant Curator of Costume at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Elizabeth Way.

Hosted by former fashion editor of The Wall Street Journal Teri Agins, Black Fashion & Beauty: A Historical View explores the rich history of African Americans in the fashion and beauty industry. Walker, Johnson Products, Soft Sheen and cosmetic companies like Fashion Fair Cosmetics and Carol’s Daughter. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. However, Black Fashion & Beauty: A Historical View shines a light on this important topic that includes black fashion dressmakers Anne Lowe, fashion designers Stephen Burrows, Byron Lars, Jeffrey Banks, and Tracey Reese fashion activist Bethann Hardison, style icon Ophelia DeVore hair stylists John Atchison and Olive Benson the Ebony Fashion Fair show, widely successful hair care companies like Madame C. Above all, this is the story of the triumph of marketing.African Americans are excluded from the history of U.S. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. From Balenciaga to Banana Republic from class to mass from elitism to democratization from art to commodity.

It is an arc from the time when 'fashion' was defined by elite French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by global socialites - but whose designs were copied and followed by everyone else - to the point where the rules are set by consumers and the designers must follow them. 'The End of Fashion traces an arc from the origins of couture and its apotheosis in the early part of this century to the advent of pret-a-porter post - World War II and the sweeping changes that have taken place as the century ends.