How Fashion Week Gets Made

A lot goes into making fashion week happen. And despite the proliferation of fashion reality television shows, there is still a lot that you might not know about. So, we decided to ask some of our friends in the industry what their day to day life is like leading up to, during and following fashion week. From the perspective of a designer, a publicist, a show producer, a pit photographer, a makeup artist and more, keep reading to learn how fashion week gets made. For our latest edition of How Fashion Week Gets Made, we got inside the head of one of the nicest and hardest-working fashion publicists there is: Sidney Prawatyotin, Vice President of Fashion at Krupp Group. His clients are some of the best young designers out there and we look forward to attending their shows each season, largely because Sidney always makes us genuinely want to. Read on to find out how he does that and some crazy situations he's encountered along the way. What shows are you working on for NYFW?

• By Dhani Mau
  Feb 16, 2012

A lot goes into making fashion week happen. And despite the proliferation of fashion reality television shows, there is still a lot that you might not know about. So, we decided to ask some of our friends in the industry what their day to day life is like leading up to, during and following fashion week. From the perspective of a designer, a publicist, a show producer, a pit photographer, a makeup artist and more, keep reading to learn how fashion week gets made. For this installment of "How Fashion Week Gets Made," we interviewed Gayle Dizon, head of Dizon Inc, an event production company that produces some of the biggest and best shows at fashion week. We know Gayle from our How I'm Making It panel discussion last year and she is one smart, successful and powerful lady. Here, she tells us about the amazing clients she works with, her year-round prep work, balancing work and family life and more.

• By Dhani Mau
  Feb 7, 2012

A lot goes into making fashion week happen. And despite the proliferation of fashion reality television shows, there is still a lot that you might not know about. So, we decided to ask some of our friends in the industry what their day to day life is like leading up to, during and following fashion week. From the perspective of a designer, a publicist, a show producer, a pit photographer, a makeup artist and more, keep reading to learn how fashion week gets made. For our inaugural edition of How Fashion Week Gets Made, Richard Chai, who will show his men's and women's collections together on Thursday, and was just named creative director at Filson, tells us about his design process, lack of sleep and reveals the location of his after party. How do you handle designing both a men's and women's collection? Are you working on both simultaneously?

• By Dhani Mau
  Feb 6, 2012