New York’s mammoth skyscrapers, the bright lights of Broadway and the wealthy Upper East Side have often made the US city feel light years ahead of London. When Fashion Week shows happen in London, Paris, Milan and New York twice a year, the festivities in the latter city always seem to shout the loudest.
The late American writer and poet Dorothy Parker once wrote: “London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.” Or, as Madonna sung in her 2005 hit “I Love New York”: “I don’t like cities. But I like New York. Other places make me feel like a dork.”
