Were the Fed run by Miuccia Prada instead of Ben Bernanke, it might have been on the ball, judging by the spring 2009 fashion collections recently trotted down the runways in New York, Paris and London. Of the Marc Jacobs show last September, New York Times fashion journalist Cathy Horyn wrote, "[It] recalled not merely the common threads of working women, black or white, but also their drift through the dirty '30s from country to city."
