Updated 09/08/2010 12:03 PM
Models Welcome Fashion Week To Lincoln Center With Special Show
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Vogue magazine and the Council of Fashion Designers of America put on a special show Wednesday night at Fashion’s Night Out.
The show was held at Lincoln Center, the site of this year's Fashion Week.
“I grew up in Lincoln Center. I danced with Balanchine,” said designer Vera Wang. “Lincoln Center has always been about the performing arts, and I think there's no more appropriate place for fashion because for me, fashion is definitely an art form."
Unlike a traditional fashion show that shows you clothes from a season ahead, this show showed you clothes that are in stores now. Over 100 models strutted down the runway, sporting clothes by dozens of designers.
"What makes tonight's show really different is that the clothes that you will see, you can buy in the shops now,” said designer Diane von Furstenberg. “Because Fashion Week is really for the trades, so you have to wait six months to see, that's what will be next spring."
Perhaps the most-powerful person in fashion, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, explained why the show was important.
"Well, I think we really wanted to bring fashion to the customer in the best way that we possibly could,” said Wintour. “Fashion Week is very much to the industry and the insiders, and this was really to open up fashion to everybody. That was our thinking behind it."
Many of the designers didn't even know which of their creations would come down the runway.
"We have clothes in the show tonight. I don't know what the clothes are or how their styled, but I trust Anna!" said designer Tommy Hilfiger.
Amar'e Stoudemire, the newest New York Knicks player, was decked out.
"Fashion Week is great,” he said. “That's what New York's about man, really enjoying the fashion."
NY1 will be at all the Fashion Week shows, bringing you the best fashion coverage on television.