Fashion week

In Paris, Milan, London and New York a national body keeps each fashion week’s official calendar. The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode coordinates Paris Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week, the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana owns the Milano Fashion Week name, the British Fashion Council curates the London schedule, and the CFDA has organized New York’s since 2014. Collections are shown ahead of their season: the womenswear week that opens in late September presents the following spring and summer. In Paris, menswear shows in January and June, womenswear in March and from late September, and haute couture in January and July; since 2010 the couture calendar has also carried high jewelry houses.

The week sells as much as it shows: showroom sessions present collections to retailers, and the FHCM runs one to raise emerging brands’ sales. Around Haute Couture Week, the French Ministry of Culture lists press offices and production companies staging the shows, journalists, celebrities and house ambassadors, and clients, who visit the salon afterward for measurements and fittings.

In job listings

Fashion week shapes press and VIP relations roles, which dress guests and run VIP showrooms and fittings; event and client relations roles; studio roles that prepare the collection and the show; and wholesale showroom roles that support the selling sessions. See current press and VIP roles.