Susan Scafidi was quoted in a New York Post article about the declining number of designers participating in New York Fashion Week.
A groundswell of designers, spearheaded by Alexander Wang, wants to leave the traditional calendar altogether and move their shows to the summer and winter months when, according to Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, buyers spend 80 percent of their budgets.
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The concern, say others, is that the buyers and fashion editors who attend the shows and are crucial to the ecosystem would likely not come to all the shows.
“Buyers and editors with ever more limited budgets have to make decisions about what to cover,” said Scafidi. “If the calendar is further divided, the industry has to take into account that not all buyers are based in New York and that the enormous editorial budgets of the past don’t exist anymore.”