NEW YORK • Barely three years after New York Fashion Week: Men's made its debut as a stand-alone celebration of all things sartorial and male, the bold experiment has fizzled.

Inaugurated in 2015 as a move by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) to showcase New York designers and align their schedules with the nearly month-long schedule of menswear shows in Paris, London and Milan, the men's week in New York quickly established itself as a calendar fixture, attracting corporate sponsors drawn to the buzz around a formerly untapped market and luring both the inevitable paparazzi and street-style jesters they seemingly exist to document.