“[Don’t] just throw them a prize and say, ‘Oh, we did our duty,’ and then put them in touch with CEOs that don’t even want to have conversations with them,” he said, critiquing initiatives like the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. “Here, there is such a divide between the corporate side and the [creative] side” of the industry. “In Europe, the top editor will be at Craig Green’s first show, but we have to wait four years to get that reaction. This is why we don’t have stars.”