New York, Paris, London and Milan host world-renowned Fashion Weeks, but there are others that have editors and influencers scrambling for front-row seats. Pitti Uomo in Florence is one of them. Niamh O’Donoghue rounds up the new, cutting-edge fashion destinations.

PRADA, Holding and Hugo Boss are among European designer-clothing brands freezing prices of men’s 2004 spring/summer collections, trying to spur sales as the dollar slides and shoppers from New York to Tokyo cut spending.