My First Fashion Week, Outdoors

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Eric Wilson

Ukrainian Fashion Week.

ENCOUNTERING the stampedes of skinny people, with their oversize satchels and neon sunglasses, skittering through Bryant Park and on to the meatpacking district and the western reaches of Chelsea, a casual observer might be inclined to ask, “Wasn’t it just Fashion Week, like, yesterday?” It cannot have escaped anyone’s attention that Fashion Week in New York keeps getting bigger (9 days and 264 shows!) and more frequent — five times this year, if you count the pre-fall shows in January, the resort shows in June and a men’s Fashion Week that went mostly unnoticed in July, in addition to the more obvious spring and fall Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks. But in answer to the question, yes, it was just Fashion Week, at least somewhere in the world. (Actually, it was in Tokyo, where Fashion Week ended on Sunday.) [link] -- SETEMBER 10, 2008.