Milan Fashion Week’s Schedule Proposal: Cut New York One Day Short
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Models walk the Gucci Spring 2012 runway in Milan.
It’s been a bitter battle between Italy’s Camera Nazionale della Moda and New York and London’s governing fashion bodies—but with the hotly debated 2012 Fashion Week schedule finally settled, Italy is reaching out with a revised fashion month plan from 2013 on.
The Camera Nazionale della Moda (the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Italian equivalent) accepted CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg’s proposal that New York Fashion Week will begin on the second Thursday of September, but suggested that New York cut one day from its typically eight-day schedule to make room for an extra day for London to show its menswear collections.
Paris, as usual, will begin after Milan.
CFDA CEO Steven Kolb told Women’s Wear Daily that the organization is currently reviewing the proposal, as is the British Fashion Council.
“We have just received an official letter from the Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana following their board meeting earlier today,” a spokesperson for the BFC told WWD. “We will discuss this proposal directly with our counterparts at CNMI, CFDA and Federation Française de la Mode. Our priority is to find stability and an agreement to ensure the focus can be on our designers and their collections in time for fashion week in February.”
Looks like a step in the right direction.
Stay tuned ...
And if that got you in the mood for a little runway action, check out the Spring 2012 collections.
