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What Happened to Fashion Week in Four Charts

In recent years, hundreds of designers have stopped showing at fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris. BoF analysed two years of shows to understand the scale and shape of the exodus.
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Models walk the runway during the Lanvin show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear. Pascal Le Segretain. (Pascal Le Segretain)
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  • Joan Kennedy, Darcey Sergison and Brian Baskin

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