Fashion Week tents became field hospitals – while the venue for the Marc Jacobs show was turned into a makeshift morgue: How two fashion editors ended up as witnesses to the unfolding catastrophe on 9/11

I heard a dull bang that sounded like a bomb

by Laura Craik, then Fashion Editor, Evening Standard 

I will never forget 9/11, but nor do I always want to remember it.

On Saturday, September 8, 2001, I flew to New York Fashion Week. As Fashion Editor of London newspaper The Evening Standard, it was a journey that I made twice a year, alongside a cohort of journalists, stylists, buyers and photographers.

That September we were there for eight days to see the spring/summer 2002 collections from the likes of designers Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors.

On the morning of the 11th, I rose early,

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