New York Fashion Week. February, slush, and a show downtown in twenty minutes.

New York has two things Milan and Paris do not. The first is weather: February brings snow, freezing rain and the grey slush that sits in the gutters for days, and it does more damage to a schedule than any amount of traffic. Shows start late, the West Side Highway crawls, and anyone walking three blocks in show clothes arrives wet.

The second is the kerb. Manhattan has almost no legal standing for a private car outside a venue, and the streets around Spring Studios and the Chelsea show spaces fill with press vans, security and photographers. A car left waiting will be moved on. The answer is a chauffeur who drops at the door, holds a block or two away at a legal spot and comes back when you call, rather than one who tries to sit outside and ends up circling.

Our own cars and chauffeurs are in London and Manchester. In New York the cars are arranged through operators we know, drivers who work this week twice a year, and you keep one contact here across the flights, the cars and the schedule.

The international calendar runs New York, then London, then Milan, then Paris, over about four weeks with almost no gap. For anyone doing all four, the failure point is never the shows. It is the handover: a car that is late to Teterboro becomes a missed flight, which becomes a missed appointment in London the following morning.

We plan the run as one itinerary rather than four bookings. The car to the aircraft, the flight arranged for you, the car waiting at Luton, Farnborough or Biggin Hill, and one person here who knows where every bag is. For a team of six or eight, a single charter between cities is often simpler than four sets of scheduled tickets, four baggage allowances and four airport queues.

February is also awards season, and the diaries overlap. If your people are moving between the New York shows and events in London or Los Angeles in the same fortnight, say so early and we will build the whole month rather than the week.