If you are told "Fashion Week", you think fashion, parades, fashion houses, stylist, mannequins, affluence in front of the fashion shows and street style. Ready-to-wear, haute couture, accreditations, major parades, minor parades ... it is true that there is something to lose his Latin!
What is Fashion Week?
Fashion Week - or fashion
week - is a week dedicated to fashion, during which fashion designers and
fashion houses present their new collections of ready-to-wear and haute couture
via parades.
The Fashion Week takes
place twice a year: the winter collections are presented in February-March, the
summer collections in September-October.
Four cities host Fashion
Week for 4 consecutive weeks, always in the same order: New York opens the
ball. Next comes London Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and Paris Fashion
Week.
What is the difference
between haute couture fashion shows and ready-to-wear fashion shows?
We can distinguish
ready-to-wear fashion shows and haute couture fashion shows. Note that Paris is
the only city that presents haute couture shows.
As the name suggests,
ready-to-wear is immediately marketable, with a few details. As a result, the
majority of the fashion show ready-to-wear shows from Fashion Week are sold 6
months later in the shop.
In contrast, Haute
Couture is not always marketed. Designed for a much more exclusive clientele (a
few hundred around the world), it serves as a showcase and a playground for
dressmakers.
Which creators parade?
The
luxury ready-to-wear brands and the big fashion houses of each country. In
Paris, we find for example Chanel, Dior, Givenchy, Balmain, Vuitton ...
It is not uncommon to
see little lesser-known creators take advantage of the aura of Fashion Week to organize their
presentations on the margins of the great parades.