Fashion 101: An Introduction To The World of Fashion:
From The Point of View of A Fashion Editor
By: Mari Davis

DALLAS, Dec 4, 2003/ FW/ --- Two seasons, twelve fashion weeks, over 1,000 runway shows, at least 2000 articles written and roughly 20,000 photographs define the world of fashion for us here at FashionWindows.

The two seasons are fall/winter and spring/summer. For short, we just call it F/W season and S/S season. Or more often, we just call them the fall and spring seasons.

The fall season is held from mid-January to mid-March. It kicks off in Milan with the opening of the Milan Menswear Show, which is historically held in the middle of January for about 5 days.

Then the Paris Haute Couture and Menswear shows follow.

After a week’s break, the womenswear season begins. It starts in New York, then London, followed by Milan and ends in Paris.

The journalists and photographers collectively call New York, London, Milan and Paris the “international fashion scene”. Where that name came from, no one can really tell. Almost everyone just accept it as so.

The spring season is spread out compared to the fall season.

The Milan Menswear and Paris Menswear shows, together with the Paris Haute Couture show happen in July.

After a month’s break (August), the womenswear season starts again in mid-September, beginning in New York, then London, Milan and Paris, in that order. It ends mid-October in Paris, for a total of 6 weeks.

Putting it in terms of statistics, it does not sound hectic at all, that is, until you are “working” on the season. [more]