Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Fashion Week, But Were
Afraid To AskS  Fashion week began today in New York. But if
you're not one of those sprites who lives for capital-F Fashion,
you may be wondering, What is the point of this thing and why is
everyone there dressed like that?  How many fashion weeks are
there?  How many blindstitches are there on a hand-rolled hem?
Wikipedia counts 138 worldwide fashion weeks, which means that
you could spend over two and a half years of your life doing
nothing but lining up outside venues from Belgrade to Brisbane
and from Rio de Janeiro to Riga, and still have only barely
completed a circuit. It is always fashion week somewhere.  But
like anything in fashion, there's a hierarchy. "Fashion Week"
basically refers to one four-week circuit: New York fashion week
kicks things off, then comes London fashion week, then Milan
fashion week, and then Paris fashion week. These are the fashion
weeks where designers including Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs,
Chanel, Dior, Burberry