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What You Need to Know About Fashion Month

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Even in the context of end-of-summer, back-to-school Septembers, this September is going to be a doozy. Not just a return to real life, but crammed with attention-demanding events: the U.S. Open finals, the Harris-Trump debate, the Emmys (which have turned into a mini-Oscars, thanks to streaming). How will fashion month, which begins in New York this week before moving on to London, Milan and Paris, ever compete?

By accessorizing with associated content. Here’s what to know about what may break through the noise.

Politics will make a model appearance.

Two young people pose in bluejeans and white T-shirts that read FASHION FOR OUR FUTURE — The CFDA and Vogue are teaming up with I Am a Voter to stage a march to register voters on the first day of New York Fashion Week.Old Navy

New York Fashion Week officially begins this Friday not with a glitzy kickoff cocktail or a news conference about the value of fashion to the municipal economy, but with … a march! Yes, the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue have teamed up with the nonprofit I Am a Voter to organize a nonpartisan procession conceived to suggest that voting is the best look of all. Michael Kors will be there; so will Thom Browne, Emily Bode and Tory Burch. Beginning at Herald Square and ending at Bryant Park, the former home of the fashion week tents, the event will culminate in a rally with some chic speechifying, as well as voter registration booths staffed by Voguettes.

Whether the gathering is a harbinger of more fashionable political statements will be one of the themes of the week. New York fashion stalwarts like Vera Wang, Gabriela Hearst and Aurora James have contributed merch to the Harris-Walz store through Designers for Democracy. Will it make it to the runways? Watch and see.

So will fashiontainment.

Coperni will bring fashion month to a close with a show at Disneyland Paris on Oct. 1.Ian Langsdon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Colm Dillane collaborated with Cirque du Soleil on his KidSuper show in Paris in June.Sam Hellmann for The New York Times

London Fashion Week will mark its 40th anniversary with a bash at 10 Downing Street, among other celebrations; Ganni will stage its show in Paris; and Ib Kamara will present his first collection for Off-White in New York.

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