As someone who makes a living by travelling the world seeking out the latest trends and undiscovered designers, I believe that to find truly innovative fashion design, you need to visit growing cities that are eager to establish themselves on the fashion scene.

Last week, Vogue Paris hopped the pond to attend New York Fashion Week and bring you the top styles from the Big Apple for the Fall/Winter 2013-2014 season.

So there I was, in the bosom of style greatness, surrounded by aesthetic alumni and fashion royalty. I was in the new spiritual home of the highly successful designer fashion retailer, Matches.

When someone decides to invest in editing and publishing a new fashion magazine, a move into a business that has been finding itself increasingly at odds with longevity and profitability, their actions are worthy of some attention.

As New York Fashion Week is closing and the London fashionistas are eagerly awaiting their five minutes of fame on the fashion stage, there has never been a better time to take an interest in the direction our fashion industry is taking.

It's London Fashion Week - #LFW is trending on twitter, the BBC are pretending to have a clue what 'on the bias' means, everyone who's anyone is in the front row of something or other and I'm at home listening to Radio 4.

Imagine the scene. It's Monday morning. You're late for work. You had a stinking fight with your partner the night before and the cat has taken a dump in your gym bag. What will you wear? It's got to be head to toe black.

The amazing thing about Fashion Week is how it it happens roughly every six months and yet it has this magical ability to create the excitement and anticipation of an event held, maybe, every two years.

There are two ways to watch a fashion show at fashion week. Either seated or standing, usually if you have a personalised invitation or a coloured sticker on it; then you are seated, If not then you join the scrum that is the 'standing queue' which being only 5'4" fills me with dread.

As the role of women in society has changed, so has the underwear. Is it not time to ditch the baggy, grey cotton briefs and start dressing like the power players we are today?

Finnish model Suvi Koponen covers Vogue Paris for the first time this month, shot by Mert & Marcus for our March 2013 avant-garde issue, available 22 February.

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It might still be freezing cold outside but spring is on its way. If you're anything like me, with the changing of the seasons comes the desire to give your clothing collection a makeover to match. Here are a selection of my favourite fashion picks for this year's springtime.