Milan Fashion Week Refuses To Move Dates, Conflicts With London & New York

Uh oh.

In a further development of the Battle of the Catwalks, Milan's Milan Chamber of Fashion has announced that it will not budge on its Spring 2013 fashion week dates, to be held in September 2012.

Milan announced recently that it would hold its fashion shows from September 19-25, Women's Wear Daily reported. New York Fashion Week, pushed back a week due to Labor Day, will run September 13-20 and London will begin the next day, running September 21-25. The Paris shows will begin on the 25th.

Such a schedule goes against a 2008 agreement made between the cities, which stated that New York begins on the second Thursday of September, followed consecutively by London, Milan and Paris.

But Mario Boselli, head of the Milan's Chamber of Fashion, claims that the agreement was only applicable for three years.

Both the Americans and Brits disagree, releasing strongly worded statements that they would prefer Milan to adjust its dates.

Milan heard the requests -- and has decided to deny them. Boselli told Women's Wear Daily today, "Let the best one win."

Get ready for a fashion rumble.

Comments

[nshoohed]

06:26 PM on 10/09/2011

Milan and New York are almost on equal footing...but you can almost compare London's shows to LA's..

[ArChiMi]

07:11 PM on 10/08/2011

I should actually take that back. Paris without John Galliano has sunk in artistic vision and credibility.

[ArChiMi]

07:07 PM on 10/08/2011

1- Paris
2- Milan
3- New York
London?!!!! hahahahahhha!!!!

[deluk]

08:46 AM on 10/09/2011

New Yoork shouldn't even be on that list, it's only there for financial reasons because it's at the heart of the USA fashion industry, everybody knows that London is the centre of creativity (see Galliano)

Nobody copies NY, everybody copies London, I thought everybody with some level of awareness knew this, this is how it's been since the 1960's btw the New york fashion industry would fall apart without the British from Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington down.

Americans are always trying to push NY as some sort of alternative to European style ("New York Times, best newspaper on Earth"....no it's not)

[ArChiMi]

12:01 PM on 10/09/2011

Ahahahahhahaah!!!! Sooo funny :)

[Ms Liann]

04:31 PM on 10/07/2011

WRONG HEADLINE! Milan was bullied to a four-day week last year by Vogue (Conde Nast Corporation). London sucks -- they can at best put on one good FASHION DAY of shows and the rest is ill-fitting garish scratch wool designed for a dreary climate. LOOK at the picture that you choose: Dolce & Gabbana corsetry lingerie. WHO in London could come up with something that sexy? Even the dominatrix Sarah Burton from Alexander McQueen shows at PARIS Fashion Week instead of London.

[shushuwu]

09:32 PM on 10/07/2011

I think some ones done her homework! I agree completely.

[ABXNOMORE]

09:21 AM on 10/08/2011

Spot on.

[deluk]

08:52 AM on 10/09/2011

I suggest by your comment that you know absolutely nothing about fashion.  London has never been able to get it's financial act together but for decades it's been the one that the others copy.

[deluk]

08:58 AM on 10/09/2011

"Designers and fashion-lovers who spoke to Reuters seemed to agree that, despite struggling to retain its clout, London was unrivalled in nurturing new talent.
"London is really the birth place of fashion today," said French-born designer Nicole Farhi, who set up her label in the early 1980s and has shown in London ever since.
"It is where the creativity comes from," she added."

from a lengthy article form Reuters...nobody who claims to be aware of fashion should be unaware of this.

[furby6]

01:26 PM on 10/07/2011

Milan wins hands down. They always blow everyone else out of the water.