A Look from Luella Bartley London Fashion Week 2008On the third day of London Fashion Week, Hilary Riva, chief executive of the British Fashion Council (BFC) held a crisis talk with rivals in Paris, New York, and Milan regarding the possible interference with London Fashion Week next year.
According to Reuters, A BFC spokeswoman said New York (which precedes London) would like to change its dates and have an eight-day fashion week. This would leave London with only four days before Milan's fashion week would begin.
"We're being squeezed in the middle,"a BFC spokeswoman told Reuters. She went on to say that New York would also like to change its dates to avoid the Labor Day holiday and late summer when Italian garment factories are on holiday. In the past this has caused making the production of samples for the spring/summer shows difficult.
With London Fashion Week currently bringing in around 100 million pounds ($176 million) in business and 50 million pounds in media advertising, this new plan could definitely impact their economy.
-Katherine Mingey
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