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New York’s first Fashion Week
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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.

