New York Men’s Fashion Week: Bruised, But Still In The Ring

Barely three years after New York Fashion Week: Men’s made its debut as a stand-alone celebration of all things sartorial and male, the bold experiment has fizzled. Inaugurated in 2015 as a move by the Council of Fashion Designers of America to showcase homegrown designers and align their schedules with the nearly monthlong schedule of men’s wear shows in Paris, London and Milan, the men’s week in New York quickly established itself as a calendar fixture, attracting corporate sponsors drawn to the buzz around a formerly untapped market and luring both the inevitable paparazzi and street-style jesters they seemingly exist to document. Designers, too, clamored to get in on a dedicated men’s wear week and the access it provided to international buyers and press. And for a time it looked as if New York’s men’s week could hold its own. Then, on the eve of the fall shows here, the CFDA made it clear that it had merged the men’s week into a 10-day fashion calendar that started on Monday, with a scant three days dedicated exclusively to men’s wear before coed and women’s wear shows begin. Read more at The New York Times.