Fashion Week Playoffs

 

This time of the year is when the best designers get to show their new ideas and garments. Celebrities and important figures from all around the world of fashion migrate towards the big four. This whole fashion event begins in New York City, continues in London and Milan, to finally finish in Paris. Each city has its own distinct identity and aesthetic, here we will mainly focus on the New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week and try to figure out what are the similarities and differences between the two.

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New York Fashion Week

The longest out of all the fashion weeks, with an extremely crowded schedule including highlights such us Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs and Coach. New York was the first city to initiate the fashion week, which makes it an important center of fashion today, and one that attracts the most journalists and media attention. The media coverage during the New York Fashion Week is huge, and the brands presented are endless. Simply put, the New York Fashion Week is a big marketplace. When it comes to the number of raw shows, New York fashion week edges the Paris fashion week.

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Pars Fashion Week

Paris or the capital of fashion, still honors the traditional forms and Parisian haute couture sensibility. Paris is where anyone can find the finest garments, by the most famous fashion designers and houses. Though is the last event chronologically, the world’s fashion industry depends on Paris Fashion week, that’s because it still holds to the key to fashion trade. Buyers from all over the world will come to Paris to take a look at new fashion ideas and order from the most prestigious brands. In terms of designers, Paris take an indisputable lead, it’s one of the grandest of all fashion weeks due to the caliber of brands who show there, from Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Chanel, are some of the oldest fashion houses in the business, and their runway shows reflect that.

 
Dapper Contributor