At New York Fashion Week: Finding Beautiful Balance Between Nicki Minaj and Incremental Change

View Photo Gallery --The spring 2015 fashion season opens in New York. NEW YORK -- Beyond the obvious benefits of a strong fashion industry -- revenue, jobs, infrastructure -- the greatest contribution of fashion is its ability to capture history in a single poetic gesture. A wrinkled and sweaty shirt can speak to a night of debauchery that ends in joyful exhaustion, a particularly faded jacket can represent comfort and languid weekend mornings, a beige suit worn by the president can unnerve a n...