By Sharon Feiereisen
After all the debacle with Peter Som leaving as the head designer it should come as little surprise that Bill Blass Couture has officially announced that it will close its factory. The staff, laid-off on Friday, included some who had been with Blass since the company’s inception back in 1970. “It’s been a crying-fest up here. I never wanted to go through something like this again,” said one employee to a reporter at WWD.
