Fashion

A fashion week is a fashion industry event, lasting approximately one week, which allows fashion designers or "houses" to display their latest collections in runway shows, and buyers to take a look at latest trends. And most importantly let the industry know, what's "in" and what's "out" for the season. The most prominent fashion weeks are held in the fashion capitals like Milan, Paris, London, and New York City.^[1] In the early and mid 2000s, fashion weeks sprang up around the globe to draw attention to designers elsewhere.^[1]

Contents 1 Characteristics 2 Schedule 3 History 4 Cities with fashion week 5 Upcoming fashion weeks 6 See also 7 References

Characteristics

In the major fashion capitals, fashion weeks are semiannual events. January through March designers showcase their autumn (fall)/winter collections and September through November the spring/summer collections are shown. Fashion weeks must be held several months in advance of the season to allow the press and buyers a chance to preview fashion designs for the following season. This is also to allow time for retailers to arrange to purchase or incorporate the designers into their retail marketing.

Schedule

The schedule begins with New York Fashion week, followed by London Fashion week. The penultimate fashion week is Milan Fashion week and the schedule ends with Paris Fashion week. These four cities are the traditional "big four" fashion weeks that are followed by new emerging fashion weeks globally. The Menswear shows occur in between autumn(fall)/winter and spring/summer in Milan.

Some fashion weeks can be genre-specific, such as a Miami Fashion Week (Swimwear), Prêt-a-Porter (ready-to-wear) Fashion Week, Couture (one-of-a-kind designer original) Fashion Week and Bridal Fashion Week, while Portland (Oregon, USA) Fashion Week shows some eco-friendly designers.

History

The earliest fashion week, held in New York City in 1943, was intended to attract attention away from French fashion during World War II, when fashion industry insiders were unable to travel to Paris to see French fashion shows.^[2] Fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert organized an event she called "Press Week" to showcase American designers for fashion journalists, whose innovations had been previously neglected.^[2] (Buyers were not admitted to the shows and instead had to visit designers' showrooms.^[2]) Press Week was a success, and fashion magazines like Vogue, which were normally filled with French designs, increasingly featured American fashion. However after the war, people returned to Paris, and to other fashion "superpowers"; London and Milan, for the new fashion weeks that had emerged. At this point in time, these four cites controlled the fashion calendar, and continue to control it to this day. In the aspects of the buying side, and journalistic side, that is good, as it means less travel and the ease of simply jetting from New York, to the next in line London, then to Milan and lastly Paris in the space of one month. For buyers abroad, the convenience of this arrangement has meant that due to the proximity of London to Milan and to Paris, it means the fashion week is getting even more important.

The one major criticism is that talented designers from emerging fashion weeks like Los Angeles or São Paulo do not get the same recognition as the designers that show in the traditional four fashion weeks of Paris, London, Milan or New York. It also means that the established designers 'rule' the market, and new designers such as those from lesser economically developed countries may not be able to open a slot in the fashion week schedule in the four fashion capitals. Therefore, although they may possess talent, their abilities to showcase this are severely hindered.

Cities with fashion week

City	Name	Date established
Amsterdam	Amsterdam International Fashion Weeks	2004[3]
Athens	Hellenic Fashion Week	2000[4]
Auckland	New Zealand Fashion Week	2001[1]
Baltimore	Baltimore's Fashion Week	2008[5]
Bangkok	Bangkok Fashion Week	2005[6]
Barcelona	Barcelona Fashion Week	1981 (Known as Pasarela Gaudí until 2001)
Belgrade	Belgrade Fashion Week	1996[7]
Bellevue	Bellvue Fashion Week	2007[8]
Berlin	Fashion Week Berlin	2007[9]
Boston	Boston Fashion Week	1989
Buenos Aires	BAF Week	2001
Brooklyn	Brooklyn Fashion Week	2003-05 Brooklyn Designers 2008 its new form
Cape Town	Cape Town Fashion Week	2003[10]
Charleston	Charleston Fashion Week	2007
Cleveland	Fashion Week Cleveland	2002 [11]
Columbus	Columbus Fashion Week	2007[12]
Copenhagen	Copenhagen Fashion Week	1964 (Unknown in its current form) [13]
Cyprus	Cyprus Fashion Week	2008[14]
Dar es Salaam	Swahili Fashion Week	2008
Fort Lauderdale	FTL MODA	2007[15]
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Fashion Week	1968[16]
Johannesburg	Joburg Fashion Week	2007[17]
Kiev	Ukrainian Fashion Week	1997[18]
Kingston	caribbean fashion week	November 7th to 11th 2001
Kuala Lumpur[19]	Malaysia Fashion Week	2007-2008
Lahore	Pakistan Fashion Week	2007
Lisbon	Moda Lisboa/Lisbon Fashion Week
London	London Fashion Week	1961 (1993 in its current form)
Los Angeles	Los Angeles Fashion Week	2003[20]
Madrid	Madrid Fashion Week	1998
Mallorca	Mallorca Fashion Week	2009[21]
Manila	Philippine Fashion Week	1997[22]
Melbourne	L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival
Mexico City	Fashion Week Mexico	1998[23]
Miami	Miami Fashion Week Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Miami	1998[24][25]
Milan	Milan Fashion Week
Moscow	Fashion Week in Moscow Russian Fashion Week	1994 (2003 in its current form)[26] 2001[27]
Mumbai	Mumbai Fashion Week	2001
Nashville	Music City Fashion Week	2008[28]
New Delhi	Delhi Fashion Week	2008[29][30]
India Fashion Week	2000[31][32]
New York City	New York Fashion Week	1943 (1993 in its current form)[2]
Oslo	Oslo Fashion Week
Paris	Paris Fashion Week	1973 in its current form
Philadelphia	Philadelphia Fashion Week	2003 in its current form
Phoenix	Phoenix Fashion Week - separated from Scottsdale Fashion Week	2004	[33]
Portland	Portland Fashion Week	2003[34]
Prague	Prague Fashion Week	2002[35]
Reykjavík	Iceland Fashion Week	2000[1]
Rio de Janeiro	Fashion Rio
Rome[36]	Rome Fashion Week
San Diego	Fashion Week San Diego	2008[37]
San Francisco	San Francisco Fashion Week	2004[38]
Santiago	Pasarela Santiago	2006
São Paulo[39]	São Paulo Fashion Week	1995[40]
Sarajevo	Sarajevo Fashion Weeks - two rival events	[41]
Scottsdale	Scottsdale Fashion Week. 2005
Singapore	Singapore Fashion Week.	1987
Seattle	Seattle Fashion Week	2003
Seoul	Seoul Fashion Week	[42]
Shanghai	Shanghai Fashion Week
Sydney	Australian Fashion Week	1995[42]
St. Louis	St. Louis Fashion Week
Stockholm	Stockholm Fashion Week	1995[42]
Tehran		2006[1]
Toronto	L'Oreal Fashion Week	2001[43]
Tokyo	Japan Fashion Week	1985 (2005 in its current form) [44]
Ulan Bator	Goyol	1988 [45]
Vancouver	British Columbia Fashion Week	2004[46]
Warsaw	Warsaw Fashion Street	2004
Zagreb	Zagreb Fashion Week	2003

Upcoming fashion weeks

• Miami Jul. 18 - 21, 2008
• Berlin Jul. 17 - 20, 2008
• Brooklyn Sep.1- 7, 2008
• New York Sep. 5 - 12, 2008
• London Sep. 14- 19, 2008
• Milan Sep. 20- 28, 2008
• Tampa Sep. 24-27, 2008
• Vancouver Sep. 22-26, 2008
• Paris Sep. 28 - October 5, 2008
• Philadelphia Sep. 19 - 21, 2008
• Phoenix Oct. 1-4, 2008
• Los Angeles Oct. 12 - 16, 2008
• Delhi Fashion Week Oct. 14 - 18, 2008
• Swahili Fashion week Nov 5-7, 2008
• Scottsdale Fashion Week Nov 6-9, 2008
• Fort Lauderdale May 28-30, 2009

See also

• Fashion design
• Haute couture
• Ready-to-wear

References

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