Dates for your diary - All upcoming show dates

[elenab]

Watch the show alive online next Tuesday 11th at 21:30 European time

http://www.mango.com/home/home.htm?i...cion=undefined

[Bengt]

Hey, thanks so much for the link! I'm so jotting it down in my calendar!

[Versace-Goddess]

Can´t wait for this.

[Versace-Goddess]

And here more information about the show.

(NEW YORK) Mango will converge scores of international guests in Barcelona next week, and it promises to be a giant family affair. On Tuesday, the retail giant will host its fashion show at Fira Barcelona, followed by an after-party that will be highlighted by a special secret performance. But to make the festivities complete, plenty of familiar faces will be on hand: Dakota Johnson will participate in the show, and Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas will join to lend support. Matthew McConaughey's belle, Camilla Alves, will also hit the runway, and with the sibling duo of Julia and Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld are expected to be sitting front row and center. Monica Cruz (a co-designer of the Pe & Mo collection, along with sister Penelope) will travel to city of Gaudi, as will Adam Lippes--currently a creative mind behind the Adam for Mango and Adam for He lines for the brand.

source: fwd

[elenab]

Jon K is in the show.

[Stylefinder]

when will we get schedules for f/w 09? Paris and New York in particular...

[LagerfeldBoy]

Originally Posted by Stylefinder

when will we get schedules for f/w 09? Paris and New York in particular...

what about s/s09 couture!

[dior_couture1245]

^^Usually mid/ late January.

[Creative]

HC: 26-29 January.

[Miss Dalloway]

^^Thanks, was wondering myself.

[Amélie]

According to http://www.mbfashionweek.com/newyork...pre_index.html
New York Fashion Week will be held from the 13th-20th February.

According to http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/
London Fashion Week will be held from the 20th-24th February.

So I imagine Milan and Paris will fall into place after that, although London does seem a bit early as it falls over the weekend.

[Amélie]

Update: http://www.modeaparis.com/va/collections/index.html has a whole heap of Paris Dates, including Fall/Winter 2009/2010... to be held from the 5th-12th March.

Which leaves Milano in the gap, although I haven't found a source for the exact dates.

The website above also includes HC, Spring Summer and Mens,
Copied and Pasted...

Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2009 2010
from Monday, July the 6th to
Thursday, July the 9th, 2009
Ready To Wear Spring-Summer 2010
from Thursday, October the 1st to
Thursday, October the 8th, 2009

Men's Ready To Wear Fall-Winter 2009 2010
from Thursday, January the 22nd to
Sunday, January the 25th, 2009

Men's Ready To Wear Spring-Summer 2010
from Thursday, June 25th
to Sunday, June 28th, 2009

[MissMagAddict]

Source | The Wall Street Journal | wsj.com/runway

Will Fashion Shows Survive The Economy?

Could fashion shows be the next victim of this recession?

Italian house Marni said Monday that it will do a presentation of its Fall 2009 menswear collection in Milan in January instead of a traditional runway show. Presentations, which typically feature models standing around like mannequins instead of walking down a runway, are often less expensive to stage.

New York designer Marc Bouwer recently told Heard on the Runway that he would reprise his Webcast fashion show, instead of a more expensive live runway show. (Mr. Bouwer estimated the Webcast will cost $60,000, compared with the $200,000 he’s spent on regular runway shows.) And designer Carmen Marc Valvo, who usually stages a show for 1,000 retail buyers and editors in New York each season, is considering doing a presentation in February instead. The event would likely cost far less than a $250,000 show.

“We had a big drop-off in attendance from regional buyers and press (at the September fashion show) because they’re cutting back on sending people” to the New York shows, says Frank Pulice, vice president of communications for Carmen Marc Valvo, who estimated that about 25% of the seats were empty during the designer’s September show. “We’re questioning whether a formal runway show is the most cost-effective way to present a collection right now when we’re not getting the people that we want there.”

Steven Kolb, executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, says the format of showing the Fall 2009 collections in February is the “number one item on everyone’s agenda right now.” He notes that IMG, which organizes New York fashion week, is open to converting one of its show venues into a presentation space if designers preferred that format. Mr. Kolb says the CFDA also is talking to designers about the possibility of having two or more designers stage combined fashion shows so costs can be shared. (Runway shows generally cost between $100,000 to $500,000 to put on.)

“There’s a lot of conversation out there about people doing things differently,” he says, while noting that there are drawbacks to bypassing a show, such as the fact that a presentation isn’t always less costly to stage. Runway shows also often serve as marketing tools for fashion labels. “You’re not going to get the same kind of editorial coverage that you might get from a show.”

[Versace-Goddess]

Here are more dates.

Berlin
January

men's & women's
from Thursday 29 to Sunday 01



Milan February
women's
from Wednesday 25 to Wednesday 04 March

[kimair]

N.Y. Fashion Week Dates Shift

Beginning with next September’s round of shows, New York Fashion Week will kick off every second Thursday of both September and February.

The shift in start days is just one of several developments highlighted in two memos the Council of Fashion Designers of America sent out this week.

The decision to move the shows originated in a meeting between CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg and executive director Steven Kolb and their European counterparts in London in September. It prompted von Furstenberg to gather executives from IMG Fashion and the Fashion Calendar here to discuss making the shift. The scheduling will allow London an extra day of shows.

The fall 2009 shows will run from Friday, Feb. 13, through Friday, Feb. 20. The spring 2010 shows are scheduled from Thursday, Sept. 10, through Thursday, Sept. 17. Thereafter, the shows are slated to begin on every second Thursday of the month.

The CFDA also recently organized a meeting with several industry executives, including editors, retailers and show producers, to brainstorm ways to improve upon the current system of shows. As a result, the CFDA is encouraging designers to consider group showings, with two or three who share the same market teaming up in one venue and showing the collection to the same audience in a one-hour time slot. The CFDA points out that shows can be personalized with different lighting, sound tracks and models within the time slot. This will not just allow editors and retailers to more efficiently manage their time by reducing travel between venues, but can also reduce the cost of shows for designers.

“Particularly with the economy, we thought, is there a different way during fashion week that designers can show their collections, that makes it more organized and structured for people who go to shows, and also, is there a way designers can perhaps spend less money?” Kolb said.

The CFDA is also encouraging more presentations, which could enable editors and retailers to attend several within one hour, and offer face time with the designer. To that end, IMG Fashion is considering a fourth venue within walking distance of the Bryant Park tents earmarked for such presentations.

In the memo, the CFDA is “strongly” encouraging designers to condense the resort shows, which in past seasons have been spread over a six-week period from early June to mid-July. The CFDA is asking designers to contain those openings to the first two weeks of June. “It looked like there should be a more defined time for resort,” Kolb said. “The closer the shows are together, the more cohesion there is, and the more defined the market becomes.”

wwd / december 4, 2008