In the grip of a growing disenchantment in recent seasons, New York Fashion Week is in full decline. This is at least what the website Fashion Network theorizes in its February 5 edition.  

And for good reason, the week of fashion overseas would struggle to seduce despite a program as dense as intense. With a total of 136 parades spread over a dozen days, the February 2018 edition breaks record lengths to the chagrin of professionals who chained thereafter London, Milan and Paris on the same frantic pace. The main reason for this marathon-style river program is the linking of the Men's Fashion Week , canceled last January, to the traditional women's ready-to-wear week in February.

Another factor behind this decline in attractiveness: the exile of some star creators based in New York in favor of Paris Fashion Week , such as Proenza Schouler , Rodarte or Altuzarra . Others, like Tommy Hilfiger, improvised performances-shows each season from événementialiser each season a new fashion capital. A strategy for which seems to choose Alexander Wang , the prodigy of the American podiums having announced its withdrawal from the current calendar to organize its own meetings in June and December. Result? Only Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs , Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford or Michael Kors still perform the show in New York .  

Finally, it is the emergence of young confidential labels like Sies Marjan , Mansur Gavriel and Monse that allows the Big Apple today to make the difference. Micro-events which echo other unpublished shows, like this season of the Italian brand Bottega Venetta, on the occasion of the opening of its new flagship store on Madison Avenue, or that of Narciso Rodriguez celebrates his 20 years with a presentation in small committee, according to the information of the webzine. A trend to " less is more" that could refocus New York on its fundamentals