There’s an epidemic in the fashion industry, one that threatens the very nature of sample sales and show coverage: pregnancy (who wants to think about pencil skirts with a child in utero?) This reproductive craze was most vivid at a baby shower that Kathryn Neale Shaffer and Ashley Bryan hosted for Vanity Fair’s Alexis Bryan-Morgan at the NYC home of Anna Wintour yesterday evening, where there were no fewer than four expectant mothers: Bryan and Neale Shaffer are both enceinte, as is Theory’s Melissa Weiss and Alice + Olivia’s Stacey Bendet. And there are more: The Chanel press office has had two recent pregnancies, and in the mother office (so to speak) there will be three Style.com babies by the end of the year. This isn’t the first time in history that the number of pregnancies have gone up in a recession; explained one (non-pregnant) party guest, “Everything is just too expensive right now. Sex is free.” A blunt explanation, certainly, which another person added to: “And the kids will help keep the economy moving.” That reminds me: Anybody want to go in on a baby line? I know quite a lot of people who will be shopping for onesies real soon.—Derek Blasberg

Photo: RD/Leon/Retna Digital

(No Ratings Yet)

 Loading ...