What’s Happened to a Whole Generation of Fashion Designers?

Suicide, substance abuse, transgressions and mental health issues have disproportionately claimed the bulk of fashion’s most celebrated and successful class of fashion designers to exist in the last two decades; era-defining talents including Alexander Mcqueen, John Galliano, Stefano Pilati, Milan Vukmirovic, Christophe Decarnin, Marc Jacobs and now Phoebe Philo. In this age of accountability, who is accountable for the health of the industry’s brightest talents?