Fasten Your Seatbelt: Itinerant Fashion Shows Are Gaining Altitude

LONDON — It has barely been two months since Paris Fashion Week and now the itinerant show season is taxiing for takeoff: There are 17 runway events planned in 11 cities for cruise and men’s wear over the next two months. The adventure — a carbon-heavy trip around the world for a lucky few — starts today with Dior’s resort show in Marrakech, the first time the French house is staging a major event in Morocco. The shows will wrap on July 4 in Rome with Fendi’s tribute to Karl Lagerfeld’s 54-year tenure at the house. Between those dates, a handful of fashion editors, influencers, stylists and celebrities will have flown to New York (in some cases, twice), Australia (for Jonathan Simkhai’s show), Tokyo, Shanghai, Rome, Berlin, Florence, Monte Carlo and Paris. Those looking to cover both the Prada men’s spring 2020 show in Shanghai and the Saint Laurent men’s event in Los Angeles are out of luck, though, as they each take place on June 6. That said, with some creative jet scheduling — private or otherwise — anything is possible. If a single individual were to attempt the entire cruise schedule and the destination men’s wear shows, that person would need stamina

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