<h3>FASHION / NEW YORK / SEPTEMBER</h3>
<h1>THE SHOW OUTSIDE THE SHOW</h1>
<p>New York Fashion Week is scheduled in rooms, but experienced in transit.</p>
<p>A runway may last fifteen minutes. The time around it stretches much further: a car that does not arrive, an elevator that takes too long, a coffee bought because twenty-three free minutes suddenly appear, a six-block walk that becomes twelve.</p>
<p>This is where Fashion Week becomes distinctly New York.</p>
<p>The official schedule provides designers, presentations and addresses. The city supplies everything between them. Guests leave one room and immediately become part of another kind of spectacle. Photographers wait outside. The next address is checked before the previous collection has been fully processed. Someone is changing shoes in the back of a car. Someone else is walking faster than their outfit was designed to allow.</p>
<p>The best between-show look has to perform several jobs at once: enough intention to survive an unexpected camera, enough reality to survive the city.</p>
<p>It may need to work in sunlight, air-conditioning, a taxi, a café, a crowded doorway and twelve blocks of pavement.</p>
<p>Fashion is often presented as an image with everything inconvenient removed. New York puts the logistics back in.</p>
<p>A coat has to open. A bag has to carry something. Shoes have to move. The outfit has to remain convincing after the first photograph.</p>
<p>The runway asks what comes next.</p>
<p>The street asks whether you can get there.</p>
<h3>ISSUE NOTE</h3>
<p><strong>NYFW / SEPTEMBER 10–15, 2026</strong></p>