The Big Four Fashion Week
20 Oct
Fashion events

The Big Four Fashion Week

How many Fashion Weeks are in a year?

Each fashion week is usually held twice a year for women’s fashion, one for the fall and winter fashion shows, which takes place between February and March.

he other in September and October for the summer and spring fashion shows.

As for the men’s fashion shows, the fashion weeks are held in Milan and then Paris in January for the fall and winter collections, and in June for the summer and spring collections.

In succession, the Big Four Fashion Weeks begin in New York, then continue in London and Milan, before they end in Paris.

 

The Big Four Fashion Weeks

 

Paris fashion week

It is unknown when the first Paris Fashion Week was named. Actually Paris Fashion Week was held in the early 1940s.Paris, the city of lights, is closely related to fashion. However, the event itself was organized and held annually under the name of fashion Press Week.

The first fashion week in Paris as we know it today was in 1973. It was a result of the continuing tug of rub between New York and Paris, and the show was held in the Palace of Versailles.

Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week

In 1943, in an attempt to draw attention to American fashion designers and enhance their position.

Journalist Eleanor Lambert took advantage of World War II, and the difficulty of holding fashion shows in France, so she invited journalists to New York where fashion shows organize.  It was announced that ‘Press Week’ was coming to the city.

The fashion shows reached 53 shows, held at the Plaza Hotel, and was a successful week par excellence.

In 1944, the first official New York Fashion Week calendar was launched, bringing together the events of Fashion Week into one comprehensive guide for everyone interested in the fashion and fashion industry.

From then until now, New York Week has continued to be held twice, one in February and in September each year.

New York Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week

Milan Fashion Week

As in New York, Italian aristocrat Giovanni Battista Giorgini was inspired by the success of Lambert and the success of the new concept of Fashion Week. So, he took the opportunity to invite the national press to display the season’s collections in 1952.

Giovanni organized a series of shows at the famous Palazzo Pitti in Florence.

Italian fashion has taken center stage in the fashion world, as famous designers. such as Emilio Pucci and Missoni, have found an exciting new platform for their designs.

Nearly two decades later, the huge success of Florence Fashion Week has exceeded the capacity of any place, even the city’s small airport can no longer accommodate visitors from all over the world. So, it decided to move it to Milan in 1958, and held twice a year.

Milan Fashion Week

Milan Fashion Week

London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week started rather late. In 1984 the first fashion week took place in the car park of the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington, west London.

It was supported by Vogue UK to get the British government to agree to sponsor the event and to organize the British Fashion Council,

where designers such as John Galliano and Betty Jackson rose to prominence on the fashion scene. This week was credited with giving a huge boost and a real catalyst for British designers, brands and models.

So far, London Fashion Week has been organized by the British Fashion Council with a number of scheduled shows that aimed to discover new talents There are also unscheduled events aimed to discover new talents allowing them to appear in London Week without paying money for that.

 

London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week

Fashion weeks around the world

Fashion Week is an important event not only for fashion industry, but also for other fields; for example it supports tourism, and has a great impact on the economy and the promotion of the local industry.

Therefore, organizing fashion weeks has became attractive in different cities and cultures.

So far, up to 138 fashion weeks held for different cities and cultures: Russia Fashion Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Shanghai Fashion Week etc…

Other centers of fashion lead the scene such as Vancouver, Los Angeles, Madrid, Rome, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

 

 

WRITTEN BY: Rania Abu Jbarah

24 Mar
Fashion events

London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2021

London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2021, as the second stop of fashion Week on the Fashion Month circuit, over 80 brands gathered in the UK ,involving a mixture of digital and physical presentations. It didn’t disappoint us even though it was in the midst of a lock-down. JW Anderson was right when she said that” Sometimes a fashion show is more than a fashion show” because this fashion show had all kinds of eye-catching styles and colors. 

The main point in this fashion week was joy, and that was obvious from the colors. Starting from the shades of sunny yellow, pretty light pinks and purples, and different shades of blue till the basic colors which are the shades of silver and oily green, and definitely these are the colors that we all need to see after a very tough, bad, and dark time that we went through because of corona pandemic and its consequences. 

Pantone Fashion Color, recognized as the color standards system for London fashion week for this season. Here are the top colors that were in London fashion week 2021:

 

  1. PANTONE 14-3205 – Pirouette

    This shade of light pink, brings us comfort.
  2. PANTONE 16-0436 – Pickled Pepper

    Mixing grass green color with light yellow which feels so tangy.
  3. PANTONE 15-3716 – Purple Rose
    The light purple is quietly elegant. It feels fresh and represent love at first sight.
  4.  PANTONE 16-1253 – Orange Ochre

    This orange shade goes with all seasons and breaks up the cool of early spring.
  5. PANTONE 13-5412 – Beach Glass

     A watery aqua color, this color symbolizes renewal and healing, also its a metaphor for life.
  6. PANTONE 14-1050 – Marigold

    It’s a golden orange shade that lends a warming presence, and it symbolizes positive emotions and energy.
  7. PANTONE 18-4250 – Indigo Bunting


    It’s a shade of blue between light and dark blue. It symbolizes bright and gorgeous spirit.
  8.  Pantone 18-1552 – Lava Falls

    It’s a shade of red that’s full of energy and power.
  9. PANTONE 13-0647 – Illuminating

    A bright color that brings joy, and it presents the color of a sunny day.
  10. PANTONE 16-4535 – Blue Atoll

    Blue Atoll is the color of the ocean and the sky; it often symbolizes serenity, stability, inspiration, wisdom or health.Not only these joyful colors, but also there were 5 core classic colors :1- PANTONE 11-0202 – Baby’s Breath

    This tinted off-white color appears soft mood.    2- PANTONE 17-1221 – Macchiato

    Macchiato is like a cup of coffee with a shade of cream.

    3- PANTONE 19-4105 – Polar Night


    Polar night is a dark blue with black tones, its also called twilight blue.

    4- PANTONE 17-5104 – Ultimate Gary

    The color ultimate gray is a timeless and practical color, and its also attractive at the same time.

     

    5- PANTONE 18-0529 – Sphagnum

    Sphagnum is the moss plant color, when you’re looking at this color you may feel the smell of nature, which arouses our passion to explore life.

    There was a high level of creativity that was done by the designers, it was obvious from the different styles of the items that were designed and by the shades of colors that were used in the show that will suit different tastes of people and also will suit different skin tones. 

    By: Yara Sinokrot

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