Among designers and clothing brands, the general consensus has always been that the world’s great centers of fashion were New York, London, Paris and Milan. Each year, the world’s leading designers would show off their wares in these places and the colors, patterns and styles would spread around the world from there.
But in recent years, other centers have emerged in Sydney, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Jakarta and numerous other places. The fashion world has become multipolar. And that raises the interesting question of how influential these places have become and how fashions now spread around the world.
