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20. The global Fashion Calendar fiasco:
What better way to end a year than to have an all-out war between all of the major Fashion Week cities? Long story short, New York Fashion Week planned to push back a week so that design teams wouldn’t have to work on Labor Day, and Milan subsequently scheduled their fashion week so thatit would clash with London and New York. Obviously, this is a huge problem, and it didn’t take long before things started getting really catty. Stubborn Milan wanted to announce its own dates—”let the best Fashion Week win,” they said—which led Condé Nast International chairman Jonathan Newhouse to announce that every international Vogue editor would boycott the Milan shows if they moved earlier. Eventually, Milan caved—with a few conditions, mind you—but we’re guessing this situation will probably continue to rear its ugly head sometime in 2012. Here’s to the new year!