1.   American women can always count on designer Isaac Mizrahi to deliver the spice during fashion week.

2.   American Movie Classics, the cable station, is also using fashion week to drum up interest in a future project.

3.   A significant number of the fashion media was decked out in denim jeans jackets during the New York spring fashion week last month.

4.   But if there is a snowstorm, fashion week will be fraught with complications.

5.   But looks, even during fashion week, can be deceiving.

6.   But the breakaway fashion week is opening a huge rift within the American design community, mostly because it was organized at the last minute in July and August.

7.   Cara Anna is in New York and will tell who is showing and the story behind this premature fashion week.

8.   ESCADA Although Escada is well known in the U.S., the German company has never had a formal runway presentation during New York fashion week.

9.   For the finale of her show during London fashion week in February, Vivienne Westwood emerged crowned with a tiara of coral.

10.   Gone was the frenetic pace, the celebrity-filled front rows and the overall party atmosphere of past fashion weeks.