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New York’s first Fashion Week

actress Jane Wyman wearing a dress by American designer Leah Rhodes, from Cine Mundial, March 1943. Photographer uncredited. Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jane_Wyman_is_wearing_a_dress_by_Leah_Rhodes,_1943.jpg. Public domain in the United States; published 1943, copyright not renewed. Unmodified.
circa-1942 fashion plate showing wartime women’s style, Rijksmuseum object RP-P-2009-3895. Artist unknown. Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vrouw_met_handtas_en_paraplu,_ca._1942,_No._3959,_RP-P-2009-3895.jpg. CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Credited to Rijksmuseum. Unmodified.

actress Jane Wyman wearing a dress by American designer Leah Rhodes, from Cine Mundial, March 1943. Photographer uncredited. Original: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jane_Wyman_is_wearing_a_dress_by_Leah_Rhodes,_1943.jpg. Public domain in the United States; published 1943, copyright not renewed. Unmodified.

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In 1943, fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert organized Press Week in New York, the event that later became New York Fashion Week. It gave American designers a way to show their seasonal collections to editors and buyers.