• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, September 22, 2009

To illustrate the shifts taking place between professional sourcing and control over brands and consumers’, Nick Brien played a clip form “The Devil Wears Prada,” in which Meryl Streep’s character lambastes an assistant who doesn’t distinguish between two shades of green belts. Basically, it’s a case for how designers shape everything, everyone wears.

Fast-forward, Brien says, and preeminent fashion house Channel has actually opened its premiere 5th Avenue Manhattan store for “design meets,” in which consumers can design their own custom, handbags.