The big issue

There’s a new fashion season coming and the September issues of the glossies are your required reading.

THE September Issue — no tome quite has the power to define a mood, dictate the pace or determine tastes in the world of fashion, or does it?

What was once seminal to the lifeblood of a $300bn global industry, that critical information leaked annually in glossy format from fashion’s power brokers, seems to be losing its rarefied veneer.