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Showing posts with label FW somewhere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FW somewhere. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Fashion ‘Weeks’ Gone Wild

If it’s Thursday, it’s fashion week somewhere. This month alone includes fashion weeks in Moscow, Karachi, Houston, Tokyo and Portland, Oregon. Dubai fashion week begins today.
There have long been just four fashion weeks that matter in the industry: New York, Milan, Paris and London. At these events, designers parade their collections for retailers and try to make a splash in the fashion press. But in the past five to 10 years, the numbers of cities and nations holding fashion weeks has burdened. There are more than 100 fashion weeks around the globe, from Islamabad to Rochester, N.Y. - -  by Christina Binkley