New York Fashion Week. Sure, an institution. Los Angeles Fashion Week. Okay, yeah. Then Miami Fashion Week. Uhhh, I guess. Then Texas Fashion Week. Hmmm. San Francicso Fashion Week. Boston. Portland. Chicago. D.C. Now, there’s Virginia Fashion Week and we think it’s high time to pump the fashion week brakes. It’s great that everybody wants to celebrate their style — and VA, with its big homegrown labels and skaters and surfers and hipsters — certainly has it. But enough with the off-the-map fashion weeks people, seriously. A true fashion week showcasing art and commerce is one thing; a series of amateur shows in a Holiday Inn with clothes from the mall is quite another. What’s next, Rural Appalachian Fashion Week? Backwoods Mississippi Fashion Week? Sheesh.
