Students Dispute Pertinence of Fashion Week and its Cultural Impact

A model checks her phone while getting ready backstage at the Eckhaus Latta fashion show at The Ralph Pucci International Showroom in Manhattan, N.Y. on Sept. 14, 2015. Photo Courtesy of Tyler Stafford.

New York Fashion Week, the city’s foremost fashion showcase, has been criticised as frivolous and a parody of itself, but Parsons students argue that its designers work and…