Palm Springs Fashion Week

Palm Springs Fashion Week's record in this guide is a debut announcement, and it is carried in the record below: the event made its debut in the California desert on November 15–19, 2006 — a worldwide invitational where fashion designers would showcase their Resort Collections for 2007, at the new Palm Springs Convention Center.

The announced programme was the full resort-city formula: designer runway shows, fabulous parties, a red carpet gala and an accessory expo, with fashion industry professionals, celebrities, society and the press meeting in the California resort city to see the latest styles, trends and applications. Resort collections are the natural Palm Springs subject — the desert city's own wardrobe, shown in season.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from these shows.

A Resort Collections Debut

Palm Springs built its fashion week on the one collection category its city embodies. Where the northern weeks show autumn and spring ready-to-wear, the Palm Springs debut was an invitational for resort — the clothes of winter sun, presented where winter sun is the local industry. The Convention Center setting and the gala-and-expo programme around the runways match that positioning: a fashion week as a resort event, not just in one.

The record is a single announcement, and this page keeps it at that length — the founding document of the event, dated by its own November 2006 debut.