Despite the fact that Fashion Week will soon be officially leaving its longtime stomping grounds at Bryant Park (come September 2010), next season there will be numerous consistencies with this past season. First off, Milk Studios' playing host to younger designers' shows is here to stay. At least for the next four seasons, that is. "We’re committed to Milk for the next two years," Estée Lauder Group president John Demsey recently told The Cut. "He says that M.A.C. [the main sponsor at Milk] will also be at Lincoln Center -- but backstage, not as a sponsor," New York adds.

Los Angeles' "Fashion Week" continues, with pop-up stores and after-parties galore. Tomorrow, we'll be hitting up a Hello Kitty event at Royal T, which is actually our idea of high fashion because we haven't grown up much since second grade. (That's invite-only, sorry, pals. We'll tell you all about it.) But tonight is open to everyone at 6613 Sunset Boulevard. Sponsored by Delicious Vinyl, "Fashion Funktion," is two-pronged: see the fashions and actually buy stuff from 2-8pm. Stick around after that, and you'll get a half-dozen DJs spinning in the new space, dubbed "Freak City."

You might think the words "Los Angeles" and "Fashion Week" don't go together, and you might even be right. You might also think that "Los Angeles Fashion Week" is really code for "Ed Hardy." But apparently Los Angeles is angling so hard for a part in the fashion world that the city is essentially opening up its showrooms and runways for the whole month of October. This week it really started in earnest, with Downtown LA Fashion Week on Tuesday, featuring emerging designers and others such as Julia Y Renata and Michel Berandi.

LA fashion is synonymous with American Apparel, Ed Hardy, and a bevy or actors-turned-designer ... not heels with horns and black leather waistcoats topped off with motorcycle helmets. But that's exactly the style of Michel Berandi, the LA-based designer responsible for a namesake men's and women's wear collection that's drastically darker and more conceptual than one would expect to find in the City of Angels. His Monday-night SS10 presentation took place at the Geffen Contemporary MOCA. Style Section LA, a newly launched West Coast style porthole which I've mentioned in the past, took a look around the eccentric designer's studio in honor of his then-upcoming LA Fashion Week installation, "etLUXOR."

Amid the typhoon of tulle, we've learned a single important lesson as this year's season of Fashion Weeks unspooled worldwide: teenybopping once-stars would do well to keep their participation in runway exhibitions strictly spectatorial. Otherwise you end up with a Hot Topic-for-slutty-tweens debacle like Avril Lavigne did. Or worse, you could actually pour your blood, sweat, and tears into a collection, only to end up with a day-glo, heart-shaped failure on your hands. But with so much fabric going up in flames and giving scribes everywhere a reason to beat the word "sartorial" senseless until it loses all further meaning, perhaps a play-by-play is in order to determine the loseriest loser of them all: Abbey Dawn or LiLo for Ungaro?

By now you're probably on Fashion Week overload. Well, as long as people in different parts of the world will insist on wearing different styles of clothing, we'll have to continue tracking what's basically a yearlong shuffle of Fashion Weeks. See for yourself! Perhaps one of the dark horses among top Fashion Weeks worldwide, Japan Fashion Week is about to head into its ninth year in October. There's no denying the far reach of Japanese street fashion or how the country has carved itself out as a monolith of contemporary pop culture formidable enough to rival style breakthroughs of Paris, London, New York, and Milan. A cheat sheet for proper Japan Fashion Week decorum follows.

"Soft tailoring, shorter shorts and transparency" are three of SS10 fashion's dominant trends, says Women's Wear Daily today. And they're not talking about women's wear. That's right, hemlines for men are on the rise, and silhouettes are getting decidedly softer ... and more sheer. Altogether it's a trend towards a more delicate way of dressing -- one that, although it may take some getting used to for more macho men, definitely parallels what's happening in women's wear.

If you're combing the back alleys of Twitter for sentience, you may notice two things. First, you're looking in the wrong place; and second, #MFW is now trending. And with the trending of #MFW, we can put the kibosh on London Fashion Week and vault ourselves head first into the wild, fiery throes of Milan Fashion Week. How is Milan Fashion Week different than LFW and NFW? Well, apart from being a wholly different acronym, in Milan, risotto falls from the sky like rain. In Milan, fat little children do butterfly strokes in ponds of pasta sauce. In Milan, romance sparks and dreams do come true. But more important than your dreams is Anna Wintour. She's already started making the rounds, thereby rendering those other two metropoli -- so splattered with pigeon shit, they are! -- passé. And as far as designers go, some of the top contenders have already sent their latest designs down the runway. And the dapper rabble, they're pleased.

Just a few seasons ago, the lowly fashion blogger was barely able to garner access to a fashion show, let alone land a seat in the front row. But fast forward to today and tween style bloggers are landing covers on magazines and after-party access to some of New York Fashion Week's most celebrity studded affairs. (Granted, while Tavi sat front row at Rodarte and partied with Jason Schwartzman and Kirsten Dunst post-show at Grotto, I can attest to the fact that it wasn't first-class service all the way: she watched Thakoon's gorgeous SS10 presentation, among others, from the standing section.) Needless to say, the industry has come a long way since 2007, when Anna Wintour was so annoyed by the word "blog" she was determined to replace it.

New York? Check. London? Check. Iran? Probably not this year. Probably due to the political hubbub that's been tearing the country asunder. Although in years past, the capital city of Tehran did stage their own Fashion Week events, boasting the latest in Islamic couture. Despite the government's effort to curb style influences by such arbitrary measures as banning curvy American mannequins, black market catwalks are cropping everywhere.