When all the turquoise corduroy pantaloons have finally been put to bed, the cognoscenti know that London Fashion Week is the one that really matters. Sure, New York might have the money, but apart from Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren (huge titans in their own right, who have built two of the biggest brands in the world), recently the city hasn’t been overburdened with talent. Some fashion editors I know say they only go to New York Fashion Week now for the shopping.
Paris has the glitz and glamour, but equally it could be said that it’s stuck in the past, a bourgeois facsimile of days gone by, peppered with a few stand-out British designers such as Kim Jones and Stella McCartney. Some of the runways shows during Paris Fashion Week are extraordinary, but they do not often equate to real life.
