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WWD Wednesday

From WWD Wednesday, February 8, 2006.

Designers showing during New York fashion week aren’t the only ones under pressure from the calendar. Vendors at the Fashion Coterie here also are scrambling to get ready for the next installment, which will take place at the Show Piers here Feb. 14-16.

We’re rushing like crazy to make it happen,” said Walter Baker, designer of the New York-based contemporary collection. Walter: “The timing is hard. We make a lot of our stuff in China, and they’re having their Chinese New Year now, so whatever we got from them two weeks ago was it,” Baker said. “But that’s part of the deal. We want to be in the fashion business, so we just have to do it.”