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Seven years ago\u2014when my now-wife Lauren Sherman and I started dating\u2014fashion week transformed from just something I vaguely knew was going on in New York to a regular, intense part of my life. Now, more than a dozen NYFWs later, I\u2019ve come to terms with the twice-annual disruption\u2014and even kind of enjoy it.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned over the years:<\/p>\n
The name \u201cfashion week\u201d is a lie. It\u2019s not a week: It\u2019s a month! While New York Fashion Week is the craziest of them all, it\u2019s just the beginning. Then there\u2019s London, Milan, and Paris. (And, if someone\u2019s really enterprising, ambitious, or behind in accumulating airline elite-status points, Singapore, Seoul, S\u00e3o Paolo, and Tokyo also host fashion weeks.)<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t expect to see much of your spouse that month. Family time, group dinners, and even Valentine\u2019s Day will need to be rescheduled, postponed, or re-enacted with a cardboard cutout. Plan on looking after the dog all by yourself. (No babies in our house, so can\u2019t speak to that. Frightened, frankly.) It\u2019s impossible to overstate the professional chaos your partner is enduring.<\/p>\n
Do go to the grocery store\u2014and don\u2019t hold back. It\u2019s a good idea to have extra snacks and caffeinated beverages around the house, as early mornings and late nights are de rigueur. Kind bars, iced coffee, and coconut water (the good stuff, not those funky ones that look like juice boxes) are Frommer household staples.<\/p>\n
Do accept the invitation to a show or two every year. I\u2019m what you might call moderately into fashion\u2014enough that I co-host a podcast with Lauren about it, but not enough that I read any fashion or style magazines or blogs. (Unless Vice counts?) But I\u2019ve really enjoyed tagging along to a few shows, especially the ones where I might actually wear the clothes (Band of Outsiders) or there’s a good chance of a lot of bizarre, drunk people lurking about (the designer shall remain nameless). I\u2019m happy I got to experience the Bryant Park tents shitshow once before they closed\u2014but I\u2019m even happier I didn\u2019t have to twice. The one tent show I went to was absolute chaos, starting late, with apparently no one in control of a long, angry line to get in.<\/p>\n
Do take the opportunity to bum a semi-\u201cfree\u201d trip to Europe! I\u2019ve now tagged along on a few trips to Paris and London, and it\u2019s a great time if you can get away. (You\u2019ll have to pay for your own plane ticket, of course\u2014but there should be half of a bed to crash on.) Paris is lovely in the spring and fall, with fewer tourists and even some neat special events and pop-ups because of fashion week. The shows and parties there are in much cooler places than they are in New York, save for the gross, stifling-hot party I endured one year at L’Aquarium de Paris while everyone was waiting for the movie stars to arrive. (BTW: The A.P.C presentation\u2014narrated by sharp and funny founder Jean Touitou\u2014is a personal favorite.) And it\u2019s a great jumping-off point for a vacation the following week. This year, we\u2019ll be heading to Portugal and Spain: the perfect way to wind down after a crazy month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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