New York Fashion Week Is On A Budget And It's Going Downhill Fast

For the past few seasons since 2010, New York City Fashion Week has been hanging out at Lincoln Center, but recently in December the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that Lincoln Center could no longer be used as Fashion Week’s main venue due to public issues and problems surrounding the venue. Along with the venue issue, Mercedes-Benz has also dropped out of Fashion Week.

This past season Fashion Week had a whole new look. The shows were split into two new main locations - one at 360 West 33^rd Street in Midtown at Skylight at Moynihan and another at 550 Washington Street in Soho at Skylight Clarkson Square. New York City Fashion Week is now sponsored by Lexus, but does the shoe fit the foot? New York City Lexus Fashion Week? Taken over by WME | IMG, it’s also being called New York Fashion Week: The Shows. Seriously, I’m just kidding. It’s what the people are calling it.

What some people don’t realize is that fashion designers don’t want to pay any money for having their shows displayed at the main locations and would rather pay to have them off site. New York Fashion Week is on a budget and it’s obvious that it’s going downhill fast.

As you walk through the doors past secondary security at Skylight at Moynihan you’ll see a few vendors inside with wide open space to walk and “bleacher like seating” letting you hangout and charge your phone along with a drink stand, charger location, and some gift freebies. When you head over to Skylight Clarkson Square, there holds a hallway as a lounge area to hangout. With a small drink stand as well as a book stand with gifts to pick up and read. But seriously, that’s it? Heading through backstage at both venues gives you a little more than enough “leg room” to get around then Lincoln Center did. Make-up artist now have some elbow room to work with. Lincoln Center was a super tight space where you could smell the sweat off of anyone passing by. Overall, both new venues aren’t as attractive as Lincoln Center was.

Even if this is true, it doesn’t seem so diabolical to everyone else who isn’t in the fashion industry. Everyone else can get a close up view of what their favorite celebrities are wearing or better yet, who is coming in and out of shows. If you’re not in the shows, it’s not affecting you. New York Fashion Week: “The Shows” is full of changes and with many designers putting off money issues and the main venues and celebrating their shows off site, it gives you secondary thoughts of what the future holds for New York Fashion Week.

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