New York Fashion Week means that fashion lovers, including the most experienced in the business and those barely starting out, will flock to New York to unveil, judge and promote the latest trends. But it wasn’t always this way. From its beginning, fashion week was a much smaller, much more exclusive gathering solely for top store buyers and fashion editors.
Fashion Week isn't just for the fashion elite anymore.
Abby Schreiber, associate fashion editor at Paper magazine, thinks that this creates a need for Fashion Week to regroup and "One thing I hear again and again is just how overwhelming Fashion Week has become," said Abby Schreiber, an associate editor who covers fashion at Paper magazine. "The number of people interested in Fashion Week has ballooned," she said. "It's not as exclusive anymore."
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