New York Fashion Week Has Had It With All You 'Bloggers'

IMG Fashion is making a few changes to the next New York Fashion Week.

Back in September we asked whether the event has lost some of its PR luster and shared a list of ways in which it often amounts to a big headache for publicists. We also posted on the shifting relationship between fashion hacks and flacks, which we assume has something to do with the fact that everyone and her brother is a fashion blogger now.

The changes announced yesterday in The Wall Street Journal come in response to the complaints of participating designers, who argued that many attendees were simply scenesters who had no real connection to the business of fashion and that the cost of running the twice-yearly event had grown far too high.

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