Knitwear is the category planned earliest in the season, which is why mid-September looks fuller than it is. Collections are still on the rails, but the most requested references start closing in the central sizes, and the pieces made with finer yarns disappear first because they were produced in limited quantities. This article looks only at timing: what a buyer can still obtain now, what has effectively gone, and how to split a remaining budget between base product, identity pieces and a reserve for replenishment that no supplier in a pronto moda district can guarantee.
