By Ed Kavishe
I can't speak for anybody else, but if you're me, here's what you do during the shows in New York, Milan and Paris....

Throw on your best fashion photographer outfit, whatever that is, sometimes might be sort of quirky sartorial pastiche. Hope you like double-cheek kissing, because you do it with the same people for a month. When the lights dim, its all flashbulbs, the sound of the shutters that seems like a machine gun is going off and long legs and fantasy-hair and music loud enough to resuscitate best-forgotten clubland memories. In between, there's lots of waiting, but believe me, waiting at Marc Jacobs is no different than waiting at the DMV.

And here's what you do after the shows.....

Process images around 100,000 of them (yes one hundred thousand), put on your ipod headphones and try to make sense of it all. Delete all unwanted shots make a careful selection between 2 of the same images and decide which one to keep depending on how flat the leg is to the surface and how far out the arm is swung by the model, yes there is a science to it believe it or not. Find a few recurring highlights a perfect example for this season: spring florals how original. These looks abduct the cheerful garden clippings of spring and turn them into something deeper more intense.

Recall all the tailor made silhouttes that wandered down the catwalk, yes its all about precision-crafted jackets and sheath dresses, each so artfully constructed as to make you want to find a statuesque pose and hold it for an entire evening...or to race to a nearby store and grab all you can. And purple.....don't forget all the purple Its bright ad imperial-almost psychedelic-in bags and shoes, Its think Cleopatra who dyed all of her ship's sails purple for a date with Marc Antony.

Then after the four weeks of fun and mayhem and long waits, you reward yourself with a chestnut crepe on the streets of Paris (ofcourse don't forget the Peroni) and then you go home and find a life after all its just fashion who really cares how long you have to wait for it.

If you'd like to join me for a more in-depth look at the shows and the decadent chaos of Fashion Week please log on to fashionwirepress.com starting January 15th 2010
Wish me luck.....