Fashion Week

Fashion week happens once in a week around the world. A fashion week is a fashion industry event lasting approximately one week which allows fashion designers brands or houses to display their latest collections in runway shows and buyers and the media to take a look at the latest trends. Most importantly these events let the industry know what's in and what's out for the season. The most prominent fashion weeks are held in the four fashion capitals of the world New York City London Milan and Paris Some other important fashion weeks in the world are held in Tokyo Sao Paulo Los Angeles Hong Kong Buenos Aires Singapore and in Toronto.

In the major fashion capitals fashion weeks are semiannual events. January through April designers showcase their autumn and 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. Latest innovations in dress designs are showcased by renowned fashion designers during these fashion weeks and all these latest collections are covered in magazines such as designers central and Vogue. All collections are collected here.

New York City London Milan and Paris each host a fashion week twice a year with New York beginning each season and the other cities following in the aforementioned order.

There are two major seasons per year  Autumn/Winter and Spring/Summer. For women’s wear the Autumn/Winter shows always start in New York in February and end in Paris in March. Spring/Summer shows start in New York in September and end in Paris in October. Menswear Autumn/Winter shows start in January in Milan for typically less than a week followed by another short week in Paris.

 Menswear Spring/Summer shows are done in June. Women’s wear haute couture shows typically happen in Paris a week after the Menswear Paris shows. For the first time women’s wear haute couture will also be shown in Singapore during its haute couture Women's Fashion Week in October 2011. This will be the first time women’s wear haute couture shows are held outside of Paris. Over the past few years more and more designers have shown inter-seasonal collections between the traditional Autumn/Winter and Spring Summer seasons. These collections are usually more commercial than the main season collections and help shorten the customer's wait for new season clothes.

 The inter-seasonal collections are Resort/Cruise before Spring Summer and Pre-Fall before Autumn/Winter. There is no fixed schedule for these shows in any of the major fashion capitals but they typically happen three months after the main season shows. Some designers show their inters-seasonal collections outside their home city. For example Karl Lagerfeld has shown his Resort and Pre-Fall collections for Channel in cities such as Moscow Los Angeles and Monte Carlo instead of Paris. Many designers also put on presentations as opposed to traditional shows during Resort and Pre-Fall either to cut down costs or because they feel the clothes can be better understood in this medium.

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