As the fashion director at Neiman Marcus, we expected Ken Downing to have a hellish Fashion Week schedule. We asked him before the Rebecca Taylor show how he was holding up. "I'm actually doing really good," he said. "You know what's interesting? Every day of my life is like fashion week because I travel for a living, and if I'm not doing fashion shows here in New York or somewhere in Europe, I'm doing a lot of fashion shows at my stores across the country," he drawled.

He does, however, have some tricks for surviving this particular fashion marathon. Read More