Why isn the season better organized?
“We send continuous memos and directives to ask people to contain their shows to the first two weeks of June,” says Kolb. “There will always be people who fall outside of it, but the more that we continue to put the message out there, the more people will follow. The truth is, if you have too long a period of resort, then editors and buyers suffer from fatigue and will lose interest.” Indeed, editors were scrambling to keep up. “I would appreciate more coordinating,” Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey told us last week, as she rushed from the Hearst building to yet another appointment. “It would be great if we could get it to be more time-efficient!” Rowley suggests restricting shows to one week, especially to benefit out-of-towners. What were the fashion highlights of the season? “I liked all those bandeau tops at YSL, [though] I’d look a little silly in them myself,” says fashion writer Derek Blasberg (whose opinion on YSL is being hotly contested at the moment). Vogue sen
