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Even in the context of end-of-summer, back-to-school Septembers, this September is going to be a doozy. Not just a return to real life, but crammed with attention-demanding events: the U.S. Open finals, the Harris-Trump debate, the Emmys (which have turned into a mini-Oscars, thanks to streaming). How will fashion month, which begins in New York this week before moving on to London, Milan and Paris, ever compete?

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New York Fashion Week officially begins this Friday not with a glitzy kickoff cocktail or a news conference about the value of fashion to the municipal economy, but with … a march! Yes, the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue have teamed up with the nonprofit I Am a Voter to organize a nonpartisan procession conceived to suggest that voting is the best look of all. Michael Kors will be there; so will Thom Browne, Emily Bode and Tory Burch. Beginning at Herald Square and ending at Bryant Park, the former home of the fashion week tents, the event will culminate in a rally with some chic speechifying, as well as voter registration booths staffed by Voguettes.

Whether the gathering is a harbinger of more fashionable political statements will be one of the themes of the week. New York fashion stalwarts like Vera Wang, Gabriela Hearst and Aurora James have contributed merch to the Harris-Walz store through Designers for Democracy. Will it make it to the runways? Watch and see.