New York City doesn’t just follow fashion—it commands it. From the polished runways of Fashion Week to the gritty sidewalks of SoHo, New York fashion is a living, breathing paradox: high and low, classic and cutting-edge, structured and chaotic. It is this constant tension that gives the city its enduring sartorial power. The Global Pulse of NYFW Twice a year, the world's style elite descend on Manhattan