1. upend UK /?p?end/ vt. 顛倒（to turn sth. upside down）
This story upended history.這個故事顛覆了歷史。
2. fashion world? 時(shí)尚界
3. fashion houses 時(shí)尚品牌
house n. 品牌，公司
the house of Chanel 香奈兒品牌
the house of Dior 迪奧品牌
4. ready-to-wear clothing成衣
haute couture 高級服裝定制
5. fashion weeks時(shí)裝周
*四大時(shí)裝周：巴黎時(shí)裝周、米蘭時(shí)裝周、倫敦時(shí)裝周、紐約時(shí)裝周
6. intersect with sth.與某事相交 intersection n. 十字路口
when my dream met the reality= when my dream intersected with reality
當(dāng)我的理想遇到現(xiàn)實(shí)
7. Sth. is not the problem.問題不在于某物
8. holdups in the supply chains供應(yīng)鏈停滯
holdup UK /?h??ld?p/ n. 停滯?
*standstill UK /?st?ndst?l/? n. 停頓，停止
9. an organizing body組織機(jī)構(gòu)
10. fashion buyer時(shí)尚買手
11. runway presentations T臺秀
12. separate from…和……分開 adj.單獨(dú)的；獨(dú)立的；不同的
13. Sth. is down.? 某物減少、下降了
14. in an effort to do sth.努力做某事（in order to do sth./trying to do sth.）
15. have yet to do sth還未做
16. order backlogs 訂單擠壓
17. celebratory adj.慶祝性的 a celebratory meal 慶功宴
18. looming UK /?lu?m??/? adj. 逼近的，靠近的
①Twice a year, the luxury fashion houses of the world present their ready-to-wear clothing for the coming season. But this year, the fashion weeks intersected with an outbreak of a new coronavirus.
②As the virus spreads, the industry isn’t so sure about its ability to move forward.
③“Empty seats at shows are not the problem — it is what is happening in showrooms, the holdups in the supply chains and what they might mean,” said Pascal Morand, the executive president of an organizing body of Paris Fashion Week.
④Fashion buyers employed by retailers and e-commerce platforms negotiate order sizes and prices with brands and decide what goes into stores. This happens during intimate showroom appointments separate from runway presentations.
⑤This season’s orders have been down, designers said. Not necessarily for big companies like Valentino, Vuitton and Tod’s, their executives said, but for smaller independent houses, and particularly for those whose production takes place even partially in China.
⑥In an effort to stop the spread of the virus, thousands of Chinese factories, already closed over the celebratory New Year period, have yet to reopen, bringing manufacturing to a near standstill and headaches for many fashion companies that produce samples and wares in the country. Significant added costs from order backlogs and logistics delays are now expected, as well as a looming threat to global trade.
