{"id":12931,"date":"2026-03-20T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/the-industry-that-eats-its-young\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:47:17","slug":"the-industry-that-eats-its-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/the-industry-that-eats-its-young\/","title":{"rendered":"The industry that eats its young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<article class=\"b-article-body\">\n<p>For over a decade, I&#8217;ve been trying to draw attention to one of fashion&#8217;s most persistent and least discussed structural failures: the way big multi-brand retailers treat small independent designers, whose work they depend on to demonstrate taste, edge, and cultural relevance.<\/p>\n<p>Please sign in to ensure you can read our agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice. Or if you experience any difficulties, please contact support@businessoffashion.com.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, I&#8217;ve been trying to draw attention to one of fashion&#8217;s most persistent and least discussed structural failures: the way big multi-brand retailers treat small independent designers, whose work they depend on to demonstrate taste, edge, and cultural relevance. Please sign in to ensure you can read our agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[6289,744,3498],"class_list":["post-12931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayers","tag-eats","tag-industry","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}