The Fashion Week catwalk clash is finally resolved Both London and New York Fashion Weeks have agreed to move their spring/summer 2013 show dates forward in order to avoid clashing with Milan and Paris. The headache is finally over. Every fashion capital will have their chance to go to the ball - so to speak - and it is thanks to London and New York rescheduling to fit around the preferred dates of the Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks. The spring/summer 2013 catwalk shows, therefore, will kick off a week earlier than usual with New York on September 6 to 13, followed by London Fashion Week between the 14th and the 18th. The migraine-inducing disagreement started when organisers realised that New York Fashion Week was scheduled to start on Sept 13, but Milan had already earmarked September 19 as their start date. The Italian Chamber of Fashion (Camera Nazionale della Moda) had argued that the agreement made between the fashion capitals for the catwalk shows to commence on the second Thursday of September was only drafted out for three years, and had since expired. We've been back and forth on this. People are anxious and need to know the dates," said Steven Kolb, chief executive officer of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. There's no value for the cities to compete. In the spirit of working together, London and New York are in agreement that we will go in the earlier period, but with the hope that the four cities will come out of this confusion and work together to plan future show weeks. We need to begin to look at the fashion season not as individual fashion weeks, but very much as a global business.