Money & Happiness - Cracking the Office Dress Code

The first time I attended a New York runway show in the early '90s, the audience was composed mostly of store buyers and fashion editors, and Elsa Klensch of CNN had a lock on the television coverage.

Now these once insular and elite events have gone mass-market and mass-media. Last week, when designers previewed their spring collections at Fashion Week in Manhattan, the biggest news was the taping of the season finale of Bravo's Project Runway, a reality show starring a group of unknown designers.