Michael Kors is opting out of New York Fashion Week.
announced today that he has opted out of New York Fashion Week, scheduled this year for the week of September 14, in favor of a spring 2021 presentation in the mid-October to mid-November time frame. “I have for a long time thought that the fashion calendar needs to change,” Kors said in a statement.
Kors’s announcement, like those of his peers, was prompted by the coronavirus lockdowns, which kept shoppers out of stores, resulting in much unsold merchandise. And not only that: The pandemic and its attendant closures delayed production and deliveries of the fall 2020 collections.
Additionally, the release states that Kors will produce two collections per year for the Michael Kors Collection, one for spring/summer and one for fall/winter. Eliminating resort and pre-fall would mean a streamlining of themes, and, the thinking goes, a more streamlined approach on the sales floor. “I think it is also important to return to the idea that September and March are key months in launching the beginning of seasonal selling for the consumer,” Kors said.
Kors’s absence will leave a significant hole in the already condensed New York Fashion Week calendar this September; he’s one of the week’s tent poles. Will his exit precipitate further departures as other designers reconsider their own deliveries and, further, whether or not the return they get from an expensive runway show is worth the outlay? In a post-COVID fashion world the only certainty is uncertainty.
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