(CNN)As international fashion editors and store buyers fly in from New York to London fashion week today, they're arriving gripped by an existential crisis.
Disruption has finally hit the designer fashion industry as corporations react with a kind of panic to the cascading consequences of social media, e-commerce and churning speed of copyist fast fashion.
On all sides, the cry goes up: what is the future of this industry?
Spotlight on London
Well, they've come to the right place for a preview. London is fashion's best vantage point for picking up what young people think, what's on their minds, and how they want the world to be, and it now stands as an international smorgasbord of creative ideas.