# Professor Scott Galloway discusses how social media has influenced some designers to abandon traditional runway presentations at New York Fashion Week

1 Faculty News February 11, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/fashion/new-york-fashion-week-smartphones-killing-off-runway-show.html?_r=0) -- "'Social media is the laxative of the fashion system,' said [Scott Galloway](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/scott-galloway), the founder and chairman of the digital consultancy L2. 'It makes everyone digest everything much faster: trends, product discovery.'"

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