Working Man Focus At Fashion Week

MYFOX NATIONAL - New York's Fashion Week was hit hard by the economy. The shows are less extravagant this year and even the parties seem to be toned down.

Patrick Michael Hughes of Parsons New School for Design says, "Fashion is idolizing definitely a different man, a different ethic. A man who is innovative, to charter this open field in this recession."

Men's designer Hisham Oumlil's fall collection doesn't look like he's idolizing the Wall Street worker, but the working man. Oumlil says the sour economy has not influenced him.

"I don't follow the trend. The idea the economy is bad is not for me to think about. I just like to make clothing. What happens with the price point is not something I do," says Oumlil. "We need to move away from what things cost. We need to go to the substance of what it is that you're buying."

Hughes adds, "Things that remind us of carpenters. Aprons, practical materials, corduroy, wool. All the classics that are very much going on."