The End of NYC Fashion Week in Bryant Park : Lincoln Center to host starting in 2010

[Scott]

^and one wonders why NYFW is a losing it's oomph. i just think that's a terrible idea. to have silly,gimmicky spectacles in the place of real fashion. and it happens every season it appears. something new and different but completely irrelevant to actual fashion and design.

 

[Adora_laModa]

As a New Yorker I feel that the our city has plenty of beautiful locations to accommodate Fashion weeks new home, where ever that may be .. New York is a traveling city and Im sure that a few more stops on the train wont stop fashion lovers from reaching the tents.. Bryant Park for me has a magical feeling and has been home to the event for many years, but change is always good isn't it ?

 

[crow_watcher]

^^ Change is good depending on what (in this case where) the change is. Has anyone forgotten about the talks on having fashion week in of all places- New Jersey

 

[LostInNJ]

^^I didn't think anyone was truly considering New Jersey, and I really don't seeing that happening....ever. The title doesn't even sound correct: New Jersey Fashion Week.

 

[mkfan]

I'm not sure if I understood correctly but don't a lot of shows show "off-calendar" (or whatever the term is) and thus dont' even use Bryant Park at all anyways?

 

[jakeee]

^ yep its true..a lot of them do, but a lot of them dont because either; its too expensive, the tents aren't right for the designers "Vision", or there simply isnt a slot for them

marc jacobs never shows at bryant park for example..

 

[smartarse]

the old post office on 7th avenue which is being converted to the new penn station terminal ....

madison square garden...

i will truly miss Bryant Park. that's for sure.

 

[ETROsexualJ]

^and one wonders why NYFW is a losing it's oomph. i just think that's a terrible idea. to have silly,gimmicky spectacles in the place of real fashion. and it happens every season it appears. something new and different but completely irrelevant to actual fashion and design.

Yah having a benefit for an organization that helps poor women obtain professional clothing, find jobs and get a "professional" look is really a horrible thing.

 

[Diorling]

I would care if the Paris Polo Club or Grand Palais refused to have shows there, but this is Bryant Park and New York Fashion Week, the biggest blip on the fashion radar. Im sure Michael Kors will manage, Im almost positive he can find another location that will suit his beige cashmere maxi dresses...

Maybe this will make NY Fashion Week more creative, like Kors showing on a floating barge or something.

 

[Scott]

Yah having a benefit for an organization that helps poor women obtain professional clothing, find jobs and get a "professional" look is really a horrible thing.

your sarcasm is noted...

but you think a "snoopy fashion show" is really beneficial? how about a real fashion with the women they help??? and helping women acquire working clothes has nothing to do with high-fashion.....in fact it's a bit of a contradiction.

 

[Foxie-Pooh]

I guess you don't know the amount of American high school teachers who loves their Peanuts inspired sweaters...

 

[ilaughead]

Uh...where are these proceeds from the Snoopy fashion show coming from? Is this really just another gala for socialites in disguise?

 

[crow_watcher]

^^Generally, good intention benefits freely invite the people their supporting. Yeah...sure they do!

 

[ETROsexualJ]

your sarcasm is noted...

but you think a "snoopy fashion show" is really beneficial? how about a real fashion with the women they help??? and helping women acquire working clothes has nothing to do with high-fashion.....in fact it's a bit of a contradiction.

Would it be better if it were helping AIDS relief in Africa? I mean what does that have to do with high-fashion?

Wait! I know! It is because who has the most money to donate or buy $10,000 tables for their bridge club friends? The rich who wear high-fashion!

 

[Scott]

^what i am saying is that,there are plenty of talents that are being overshadowed and instead of inviting actual designers,to show or present there,they are putting these benefits in the place of what they should do. it's a huge circus at these tents now(no pun),it's got nothing to do with fashion in NY anymore. i think there is seriously something wrong with the system. like jared said himself of suzy menkes' opinion,it's such a trek when so many are showing across town.

 

[rangerrick14]

I say hello to the end of Bryant Park tents; maybe now designers will be forced to think about shows instead of the boring stock white walls, wkite runway shows. It seems New York doesn't have the flare of Paris or Milan. They are all obsessed with this breakfast at tiffany's Jacki-O aesthetic. Kinda boring now.

BUt on another note those galas don't even really help anyway. They throw a gala for 500,000 and raise 600,000 why not give all the 600,000 to the people.

 

[Diorling]

^ No, it's most NY designers are stuck on what they feel is the "new york look" of like white white white. Donna and Kors are the biggest victims of this.

 

[rangerrick14]

The sad thing is as long as celebs love it; it will stay the same

 

[Xone]

no news about the new place??

 

[Xone]

pls any update will be apreciated...btw wich designers are showing outside the tents???