London Fashion Week has been thrown into crisis after heavyweight Italian fashion brand Gucci, who will show their spring/summer 2012 collection in Milan on Wednesday, ordered countless models to fly to Milan early to begin fittings for their show. The move has left the bi-annual fashion event in chaos with models being pulled from shows at the eleventh hour, leaving London-based model agencies outraged and threatening to boycott London Fashion Week next season if the British Fashion Council don't re-organise the London schedule and intervene to prevent what they perceive as bullying tactics by both New York and Milan Fashion Weeks. Problems began when Marc Jacobs moved his New York show back to make up time his design team lost when Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast of America. Jacobs' show ran so late on Thursday night that the models couldn't catch the last flight back to London so had to be pulled from Friday's London shows. "We're not just talking about one or two big girls," Carole White, the founder of London-based model agency Premier Model Management told us, "Jacobs had numerous models holding on options right up until the day of his show meaning they all stayed in New York just in case they got cast.
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