New York fashion week spring 2000
February 2000
- Jess Cartner-Morley on fashionMost wanted: Bottega Veneta
File this under Buy Now, Feel Smug Later. Your friends might not be overly impressed by a BV monogram, or by the Vicenza-based company's signature woven leather, just yet. But after the Bottega Veneta show was the surprise hit of fashion week in New York, the smart money is on the label to be the Next Big Thing. Harvey Nichols, the only British stockist, is currently revamping the Bottega Veneta concession (it reopens next Wednesday), but you will still have to make do with the accessories until autumn, when the harlequin leather-and-tweed skirts and ribbon leather blouson jackets, currently available only in Italy and the US, might make it to these shores.
- Jess Cartner-Morley on fashionIn fashion, it's autumn already
In the real world, it's not even spring yet - but in fashion, autumn is here already. New York fashion week begins in earnest tomorrow when sportswear king Tommy Hilfiger presents his designs for autumn/winter 2000/2001. Over the next four weeks, New York, London, Milan and Paris will take turns to host fashion weeks, where designers will present the clothes that will fill stores and magazines worldwide by autumn.