I think fashion weeks wherever they might be held are more about theatre than anything else. Sometimes a look will transfer to the high street, but more often than not what's being displayed is preposterous and they, who ever dreamed it up, know it!
I don't think it was always thus, maybe I'm mistaken but I think these events have morphed into the ridiculous in recent times. I honestly loved fashion once, certainly back in the times of Biba, I find so much of it and what surrounds fashion weeks a fatuous load of nonsense, showing my age clearly.
Nowadays even the Sunday Times fashion magazine gives me the urge to fling it from one side of the room to the other, so expensive, ridiculous, irrelevant and ugly are much of what they display, God knows who it's aimed at.