Paris Fashion Week closed in March with a spectacle held by Louis Vuitton in a shadowy courtyard of the closed Louvre museum. Shortly afterward, the spread of the coronavirus put an end to physical gatherings, including the runway circus more commonly known as fashion week. This week, London will up the ante on the industry experiment as the city becomes the first of the four fashion capitals to take its runway shows online. Previously called London Fashion Week Men’s, the shows, held in June, were a weekend roundup of British men’s wear that acted as a curtain raiser for the bigger, beefier men’s wear lineups shown later elsewhere in Europe. Now London Fashion Week has dropped the “men’s” and will be a digital platform catering to all genders.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2020 03:56 UTC