New York Fashion Week, recently branded Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, is a semiannual fashion week held in New York City. It is one of four major fashion weeks in the fashion industry. The Spring 2009 Fashion Week was held February 5–12, 2008. The Fall 2009 Fashion Week was held September 13–20, 2009. The upcoming Spring 2010 Pret a Porter Fashion Week will be held September 10–17, 2009.
The first New York Fashion Week, then called Press Week, was ...
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New York Fashion Week, recently branded Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, is a semiannual fashion week held in New York City. It is one of four major fashion weeks in the fashion industry. The Spring 2009 Fashion Week was held February 5–12, 2008. The Fall 2009 Fashion Week was held September 13–20, 2009. The upcoming Spring 2010 Pret a Porter Fashion Week will be held September 10–17, 2009.
The first New York Fashion Week, then called Press Week, was the world's first organized fashion week. Held in 1943, the event was designed 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. Fashion publicist Eleanor Lamber organized an event she called "Press Week" to showcase American designers for fashion journalists, who had previously neglected their innovations. (Buyers were not admitted to the shows and instead had to visit designers' showrooms.) Press Week was a success, and fashion...
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