At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, New York Fashion Week stopped. Runways emptied, appointments vanished and the tents from Marc Jacobs’s final show became part of a city struggling to survive. Twenty-five years later, NYFW pauses again. For those who remember, and those who never knew why, this is the story of what fashion lost, how it served and what the silence is holding.
