New York Fashion Week Quickly Losing Designers

Elsewhere in economic woe news in the big city, designers are dropping out of New York’s Fashion Week faster than you can count them, all citing financial considerations as the reason. Big names like Vera Wang and Carmen Marc Valo are out. DKNY is gone and Betsy Johnson, a staple at the event, has decided to pull the plug and will just be having a small private party to show off her new work. All of this leaves the Fashion Week website looking a little, ahem, unfinished