Designers bank on diversity on runway to reel in millennials

Paris

FASHION, like most everything else, is now seeking to please the millennials - who want experiences, not products, who value design but are suspicious of a sales pitch, who want quality but tend to be cheap.

The last thing millennials are supposed to want is an ostentatious US$4,000 designer dress that might look great in a selfie but is too precious to sit down in, let alone wear, while pedaling to one's communal office space on a shared bicycle.