it's actually a $400 billion a year industry, and one burch says is too big to fail. >> you got on thesecretary mnuchin, and what was your pitch? >> we need to save jobs, and the fashion industry is nearly four million jobs were at risk. we weren't being talked about like the airline industry. we needed to be addressed. >> in the depression, we saw a lot of people who couldn't afford to buy a new dress and a lot of dress-makers went out of business. >> reporter: valeria steele, museum director at the fashion institute of technology says some of the best fashion has come out of tough times. >> there was a lot of creative fashion that emerged in 1918, 1919, after the flu epidemic. >> reporter: like the fun flapper dresses of the roaring '20s, and christian dior's iconic new look, that cinch cinch-waist silhouette. >> it wasn't really that new, but it had all been put on ice. so people were just so excited about looking beautiful and feminine and romantic again. >> reporter: what does the future of fashion look like to you? >> fashion will survive. the idea of dressing up, of making yours

james burch with the anti police terror project in oakland has been fighting for sb-731, a bill thatld have created a way to strip badges from officers found to have committed serious misconduct. california is one of five states without a way to decertify bad acting police. >> that leads a subject to a whole host of problems, right? there are officers who, in lieu of termination will resign and go take up at another law enforcement division somewhere else. >> reporter: peace officers research association of california, a statewide federation of police unions is happy the bill didn't pass. in a statement they told abc 7 news while they support the spirit and intent of the bill, it reached far beyond the police licensing process and includes policies that would potentially penalize the most respected officers. one bill that passed would ban police officers from using chokeholds and another that would require the state attorney general to investigate every time police kill an unarmed civilian. for burch, he wants to know why the bill wasn't put up for a vote. >> if you're in the going t

think you can and that was a did of you said brussels burch if alexander phenomena speaking to the foreign affairs minister of lithuania not want to tell you know what some of the other stories making news around the world. small is ruling military junta has appointed former defense minister bundle as you know him presidents to leave the country to move elections a coup last month overthrew president abraham backer k.-tel but the hanta has been under intense pressure from its west african neighbors to return power to civilians . armenians have been marking 29 years of their independence on this day and 9091 more to 94 percent of voters cast their ballots in favor of armenians leaving the soviet union limits a pandemic independence day celebrations were scaled down and partially held online . and another meeting that has been drastically scaled down the the u.n. assembly world leaders marking the 75th anniversary of the united nations as the core of virus pandemic poses big challenges to the organizations unity the u.n. secretary general antonio agree terrorists call for more international

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all the way through the john burch society, the goldwater supporters in 1964, who believed that both dwight eisenhower were, and i quote, conscious agents of the communist conspiracy. so the paranoid style has been there. what is different is i would say it was probably 10% to 15% of the country for much of our history, just ballpark. it is now closer to 40%, and my own estimate about why that is, is that globalization -- and we're seeing so much evidence of the terrible -- both the positive parts of globalization, but also the really terrifying costs of it. we see it in the fires. we see it in climate change. we see it in the flow of manufacturing jobs and the rise of information jobs for which not enough people are educated. globalization has presented this existential challenge to the way so many people live that instead of reacting to it rationally and trying to figure out a way forward through this new world, they have instead looked back. they have romanticized the 1950s, which the 1950s were great if you looked like me. if you were a boring white male episcopalian from the sou

some big names that are opting not to showcase any lines, that will be michael kors, provenza, tori burchname too, marc jacobs said he's not going to be creating a collection for the upcoming new york fashion week either. he foreshadowed this to vogue. listen in. >> i'm not sure there will be a spring, summer '21 collection. i just don't know. this has been a very difficult business to be in for a long time. >> reporter: the big question is how do you have fashion week when so many people aren't dressing up, especially when sweat pant sales are through the roof. i'm wondering how many viewers are wearing sweat pants. even vogue editor anna wintour was wearing sweat pants recently. you have fashion week, an example, coming at a time when so many retailers filed for bankruptcy and when the industry itself is going direct to consumer. that is going to be the latest trend, bypassing the middleman. new york fashion week still set to go but it will be a lot different as anna wintour told the new york times. maria: kristina partsinevolos. stay with us. still ahead i'll be speaking with dr. scott