NEW YORK FASHION WEEK'S NEW LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN REVEALED

Update: New York
Fashion Week's Lincoln Center replacement has been announced, and it's TWO
places. Women's Wear Daily reports the venues be in midtown (Skylight at
Moynihan Station at 360 West 33rd Street) and west SoHo (Skylight Clarkson Sq
at 550 Washington Street) this September, and it's a multiyear deal. IMG had
discussions with designers, show producers, and journalists to choose the
locations. Considering both have been used before for shows (Prabal Gurung at
Moynihan Station, and this July's first-ever New York men's fashion week at
Skylight Clarkson Square), it'll be exciting to see more staged this Sept.
10-17.
The breakup has been
rumored for some time, but now it's OFFICIAL-official: This February's New York
Fashion Week will be the last one held at Lincoln Center. According to Racked,
a blogger came across some New York City legal documents that show the parks
and recreation department has court-ordered NYFW to leave Lincoln Center once
its current contract ends in February.
We're not exactly
sure where all the shenanigans will be based next—all signs (and former mayor
Mike Bloomberg) have pointed to Hudson Yards, but development of the area is
still in the works. Then again, many designers choose to show elsewhere in
Manhattan (and sometimes Brooklyn), so perhaps competition for popular spaces
like Chelsea Piers and Milk Studios will simply grow in the meantime. But
still, it feels a bit like the end of an (albeit short) era—Lincoln Center was
home to NYFW for four years after it moved from its original home in Bryant
Park.
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