The two best-known fashion weeks around the world – New York and Paris – predict the fashion trends for the following season.
New York fashion week takes place in New York City from Feb. 10-15. On average there are 230,000 visitors who attend over 300 shows.
Paris Fashion week is smaller than the New York week, with around 100 shows and far fewer visitors, but they make up for it in designers. Paris has many more major designers compared to New York, with famous brands such as Dior, Hermès, and Maison Margiela.
Paris Fashion Week is longer than other shows, being eight days long. This year it runs from Feb. 27 to March 7.
The shows generate a lot of money, which goes to designers, models, and the companies to plan the event, such as the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which organizes the New York week.
While Paris Fashion is smaller, the overall event generates over $1.2 billion every year, while the New York event produces $900 million.
The New York show focuses more on trends within fashion and creating pieces and styles that will accelerate in popularity for the next season. The Paris show also predicts trends, but focuses more on creativity and culture of fashion, rather than trying to come up with styles for the public to enjoy and wear.
These fashion shows take place twice annually: the February show features the fall-winter collection, and the September show features the spring-summer collection. Both fashion weeks are actively moving away from the standard model look that was used in the past, to be more inclusive.
Another difference that separates the fashion at the New York Week from the Paris Week is how the designers are focusing their designs for the trends and styles of that area, whether it be the United States or parts of Europe.
The fall/winter 2023 shows featured a great deal of the color red. If the fashion world follows the trends of the past years, within six months various shades of red should be filling all types of stores, from high-end designer to fast fashion and everything in between.
Metallics should also be seen in upcoming pieces, as evidenced by its presence in the Bronx and Banco collection, which features metallic dresses in multiple colors and styles.
One style that has become fairly popular in the fashion industry, but seems unrealistic for the everyday person, features an average outfit on the top, but with pants or a skirt replaced by underwear-like shorts that go along with the style of the top. These are usually followed with tights and heels.
These types of looks that are impractical for the ordinary person can be seen on people who don’t have conventional jobs or life, such as Kendal Jenner, who has been seen in public with similar style to this multiple times.
While runway fashion might not be what people actually want to wear in daily life, society and retailers can take inspiration from the pieces in their daily fashion.