Bryant Park Bids a Final Farewell to Fashion Week

by Nicole Hulley

February will mark the last time Bryant Park plays host to New York’s Fashion Week. In celebration, Spring/Summer 2010 will be a grand occasion. Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center will be the new home for Fashion Week and they have been making preparations to welcome the festivities. It is a sad farewell to Bryant Park, where so many fashion memories have been made, but we look forward to Lincoln Center’s rendition.

We do wonder if this will help the MAC sponsored festivities at Milk Studios. The alternative venue had a successful launch in September with designers like Proenza Schouler, Temperley London and Erin Fetherston. While Milk isn’t exactly around the corner from the new Central Park West venue, it is a more direct route to the Meatpacking District. Bryant Park didn’t seem to suffer from having an alternative venue, and now that there won’t be any crosstown traffic to navigate we have to imagine that come September you can catch even more of the fashion crowd moving up and down 9th and 10th all week.

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