Back on the Fashion Caravan

Tomorrow fashion week revs up here in New York City. Hundreds of designers will be showing their spring, 2009 collections on runways in Bryant Park and elsewhere or in presentations in showrooms, photo studios, and restaurants. You name it. I think there's even a presentation in the Four Season's Pool room today. There are plenty of anniversaries, launches and birthday parties, too. Calvin Klein's 40th (big party Sunday night), Valentino and Timex's watch launch (big dinner tonight), and the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz (random, I know, but there's some shoe tie-in here at Sak's Fifth Avenue). This season I've invited Time columnist Joel Stein and designer Isaac Mizrahi to blog about fashion week along with me. Ideally, Joel will provide the outsider's point of view and Isaac will supply the ultimate insider's point of view—what it's actually like to survive fashion week as a designer with a big show (his is on Monday). Who knows what they'll write, but they are two of the funniest people I know so it should be amusing. I hope it's informative, too.