Fashion month through my eyes
So London Fashion Week has just finished. A number of people have asked me why I haven’t gone to see any London shows and soak up the frantic fashion atmosphere. Before I started writing, I used to study at the London College of Fashion, a stone’s throw away from all the action, but I never attended LFW even when I thought I was going to be a future fashion designer. I’ll explain later, but first, let me give you an outline of what is happening right now in the fashion world; Photograph by Tim Ireland, The Associated Press via The StarPhoenix Fashion month starts every February and September, it’s four weeks of catwalk shows hosted in four cities. The shows start in New york, then move to London, then Milan and finish in Paris. These cities are known as ‘the big four’ because they influence so much of the fashion industry, and are the main event of the season, gaining lots of media coverage. However smaller fashion weeks actually happen in cities all over the world throug
