Good morning from New York and welcome to our live fashion blog. Our hope is that this blog will provide all your fashion week  needs: news from the shows, celebrity spots, gossip, and, of course, what next year's trends will be. We'll also be linking out to the best things we've spotted on the web, as well as answering your questions. The blog will be updated throughout the day, with myself anchoring it in New York, and regular hot-off-the-press updates from our fashion editor Jess Cartner-Morley in New York and deputy fashion editor Imogen Fox back in London. We'll also be including tweets and blogs from other journalists and bloggers.

8.15am EST: Good morning from New York. Coming up today we have presentations from the ever-popular Mulberry - I'm looking forward to meeting and interviewing creative director Emma Hill afterwards - as well as shows from Herve Leger, Vera Wang and in the evening, Marc by Marc Jacobs. There will also be more on ethical fashion from me at the Green Shows and the Nolcha exhibition.But first to last night's action. The main event was Marc Jacob's show - see pictures here  - his premium line rather than the 'diffusion' (translation: cheaper) range he'll be showing tonight. This despatch from Jess Cartner-Morley last night:Strangely, my invite to Donna Karan's apartment failed to turn up - I'm blaming the post. More news from Jess - including breaking hangover updates, I hope - later.

8.45am EST: Today's reviews of Marc Jacobs are mixed. Suzy Menkes at the New York Times was rather disapproving of the rather obvious (according to her) referencing: