MALVEAUX: What's hot? What's not? In fashion, turn your eyes to New York. Alina Cho takes us behind the scenes of Fashion Week.</s>ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: People think it's all glitz and glamour. The reality is you could go to fashion shows from 9:00 in the morning until 10:00 at night.</s>CHO: What designers do during Fashion Week is they show clothes for the next season. It takes six months really for clothes to come down the runway and make their way into the stores.</s>CHO: Once those clothes leave the runway, they go right back to the designer's show room. And then buyers come in. Those buyers come from stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales. Once they place their orders, the clothes have to be made. There is a trickle down effect, whether it's a belt or a color or a shoe. Something similar you will be able to buy. Also, magazine editors see looks that they like from the runway that they want to shoot for their magazines. A lot of the editors often joke that, by the time, they see the clothes in the store, they are sick of them, because they saw them six months ago. But for the average consumer, they are new. And that's why they sell.</s>CHO: Ah, the politics of the front row at a fashion show. There are three major categories, top editors, buyers and, of course, celebrities. So editors of top magazines, these are people who will be making decisions about what kinds of clothes appear in the magazines. So of course, it's in the designer's best interest to have those people in the front row, where you can see not just the clothes but how the clothes move on the model. People might say, why would celebrities attend? We are talking about exposure. And it's a win-win for the celebrity and the designer.</s>CHO: Fashion Week is invitation only. You have to be invited by the designer. You can't bring a guest unless you are a top editor, like from "Vogue." Anyone who is buying the clothes or writing about the clothes will be there.</s>MALVEAUX: I want a pass. I want an invite.
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