On September 9, Fashion Week will get a new look…

• The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week has grown too big for its former digs – this year it’s moving from Bryant Park to Damrosch Park and Lincoln Center.
• The new hosts at Lincoln Center are using this move as an opportunity to expand the center’s reputation beyond just music, dance, and theater performance. They will complement the runway shows with a variety of fashion-related programming.
• Designers who might have traditionally chosen to hold their shows off-site in the Bryant Park years have been encouraged to stage their events close to Lincoln Center. Some designers are showing in the promenades of Avery Fisher Hall and the David H. Koch Theater, or at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Best Quote

“I want to see fashion on par with all of the other cultural activities here—the ballet, the opera.” – Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Director of Fashion at Lincoln Center