Fashion's Night Out
by Wendy Lerman
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The air is getting cooler, the tents are pitched, and models are walking in flocks through Times Square ... it could only mean one thing: New York Fashion Week is almost here. Those of us who are lucky enough to attend a show or two or ten know how much time, energy, and resources go into making the shows nothing less than spectacular. This year we expect nothing less. However, there is one major difference. This year, not only anyone who is anyone can join in some of these highly anticipated festivities, but ANYONE.
Fashion's Night Out, the brainchild of Anna Wintour and the CFDA, is a citywide celebration with over 700 stores participating. The event will kickoff with Anna Wintour, along with Michael Kors visiting the Macy’s Queens Center where they will unveil a special Vogue in-store boutique displaying some of this season's hottest trends. Shops all over the city (all five boroughs) will stay open late, serve food and cocktails, host celebrities and designers, play music, offer prizes, giveaways, games and so much more. Each store will offer something or someone unique, so make sure to check out the official Fashion Night's Out website for more details: www.fashionnightout.com While you are out, pick up a limited-edition Fashion's Night Out t-shirt and 40% of the proceeds will benefit The September 11th Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. Or donate a garment to the IMG-sponsored citywide clothing drive for the NYC AIDS fund. If you can’t decide which stores to visit first, here are some of our favorite picks: Bergdorf Goodman Saks Fifth Avenue Henri Bendel Plaza Too Juicy Couture Judith Ripka |
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| Bergdorf Goodman Padma Lakshimi judges a designer cook-off, guest bartenders Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen mix things up, life-size game of Fashion Rules with Andre Leon Talley, Donna Karan, Emmy Rossum, Linda Fargo, and Robert Verdi. Conversations with Isaac Mizrahi & tunes by the Ben Waltzer Trio. T-shirt sigining by Manolo Blahnik, Victoria Beckham, Richard Chai, Giuseppe Zanotti, and many other designers.
Join us for cocktails and nibbles courtesy of STK and enjoy chic beats by guest DJ Niki McNally. Meet and shop with designers who were discovered by Bendel as well as emerging designers and artists who represent the future at the New and the Next gallery, including an exhibition of new works from model and artist, Sasha Pivavora. Get your perfect red pout courtesy of Revlon's Global Artistic Director, Gucci Westman and get styled by Gossip Girl costume designer and author of You Know You Want It, Eric Daman, for the "I'd Rather Wear Accessories" photo shoot. Plus, enter the "I'd Rather Wear Accessories" sweepstakes for a chance to win the accessory of your choice! Saks Fifth Avenue Celebrate the William Rast Fall 2009 pop up store launch with brand founders Trace Ayala and Justin Timberlake. Watch Donna Karan kick-off the evening with an inauguration of her new in-store shop. Meet Carolina Herrera, Chris Benz and Elie Tahari who will be among the revered Ready to Wear designers meeting customers that evening. Other designer favorites visiting Saks include Christian Cota, Geren Ford, Kay Unger, Peter Som, Ralph Rucci, Shoshanna Gruss, Teri Jon's Rickie Freeman, Yoana Baraschi, and Young, Fabulous & Broke's Heidi Cornell. Vogue's Filipa Fino will present the must-have footwear of the season in 10022-SHOE, home to fashion’s most hailed shoe designers. Making appearances on the floor are shoe royalty Giuseppe Zanotti and famed new comer to Saks Camilla Skovgaard.
Saks customers love their accessories and now can meet the designers behind them including Be & D's Be Inthavong and Steve Dumain and Santiago Barberi Gonzalez of Nancy Gonzalez. Abbe Held of Kooba, Adrienne Landau, Carlos Falchi, Chan Luu, Devi Kroell, Eric Javits, Joy Gryson, Katherine Kwei, Lola, Monica Botkier, and Sherry Cassin will also greet customers. And so much more! Plaza Too Fashion Night Out, Champagne, Cupcakes by the Lower East Side Girls Club, 100% Home Grown NYC! Come for the cause, stay for the champagne! Bring your never worn or gently used shoes for a worthy cause: each pair of shoes will be donated to Dress For Success, a charity that helps empower women by providing professional attire. Champagne will be flowing and cupcakes form the Lower East Side Girls Club will abound, while accessory designer Natalie Griffith of the line New York Nat will present an exclusive trunk show as well as provide hair styling tips. There will also be a preview of Nolcha Fashion Week, a bastion of new and emerging talent, including a presentation by Bel Esprit. Please join us for this fabulous night of fashion and fun! |
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| Juicy Couture 650 Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street and Juicy Couture, 268 Bleecker Street at Charles Street Juicy Couture invites NYC to stay up late and shop! Joining Vogue’s Fashion Night Out initiative Juicy Couture will welcome all to an eclectic Anglophile celebration at the Fifth Avenue Flagship store. Editor-at-large Hamish Bowles will perform Noel Coward and other favorites as a nod to Juicy Couture’s co-founder Gela Nash-Taylor’s English home featured in Vogue’s September issue.
Special festivities will be taking place at: Juicy Couture Fifth Avenue Flagship & Juicy Couture Bleecker Street. Partaking in the festivities at the Fifth Avenue Flagship locations will be Juicy Couture co-founder Gela Nash-Taylor. Kicking off the celebration at 6:00 pm Nash-Taylor and Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley will be part of the Bleecker Street soirée and then move uptown to 5th Ave. joined by President Edgar Huber. Judith Ripka and Shoshanna 777 Madison Avenue Enjoy a Private Preview of the Shoshanna holiday and resort collections. Personal appearance by Shoshanna Gruss. Indulge in mini manicures provided by House of Signorelli featuring Essie Loves Diamonds by Judith Ripka. One lucky winner will receive a $500 Shoshanna shopping spree at the Shoshanna Showroom and a Judith Ripka Signature Fontaine Ring. |
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| Just a sampling of some of the many invites and participants... |
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