What's the Point of Fashion Week?: Heather Wagner | Vanity Fair

Back in the day (pre-1993, to be exact, which marked the first official New York Fashion Week), buyers and editors would come to a designer's showroom, look at the designs and patterns, place their orders, and go get a glass of white wine somewhere. ... What's the point of Fashion Week, Fug Girl Heather Cocks? “I think the point of Fashion Week has become 'see and be seen.' The real show these days is in the front rows: what celebs are attending, what they're wearing, ...