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Anna Sui Bids Adieu
By admins | September 22, 2009
One of our biggest allies in the fight to Save the Garment Center is designer Anna Sui. We have written extensively about the many challenges facing our neighborhood, one of which is New York Fashion Week. Our lovely Bryant Park, while in the perfect location, has been deemed too small for the swelling fashion shows. We are certainly thrilled at how large our city’s fashion week has become but at the same time saddened to lose such a notable event in the Garment Center.
Anna Sui has loudly protesting the moving of fashion week from Bryant Park to the Upper West-side’s Lincoln center. Not only is it a symbolic loss for the neighborhood, but it takes much needed money away from our local businesses and is a logistic nightmare for designers. As Anna pointed out, it will no longer be cheap and easy to walk racks from showrooms to runways. Nor simple to make a quick trip back to the office for some forgotten item. As a farewell nod to the 15 years in the Bryant Park tents, Anna Sui drew inspiration from them for her last NYFW show. Anna used large hand painted canvas of glittery tents as the backdrop to her runway. So how do you feel about New York’s Fashion Week’s big move?
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September 22nd, 2009 at 6:47 am
I loved Anna Sui’s show!
I’m not a New Yorker, but I think it’s a shame to move the shows from Bryant Park. There’s such a history there and I admire the way you guys are fighting so hard to preserve that history!
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:04 am
hi there! i too don’t like the move to Lincoln Center. NYFW has been tightly associated with Bryant Park and it’s unsettling to think one without the other. Not to mention, I work 2 blocks from the park too :)
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September 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 am
I totally agree with Anna. It’s a huge logistical nightmare and frankly will make it impossible for models to be able to move quickly from show to show. At least Bryant Park was kind of in the middle. The UWS is going to be a hassle for everyone.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
That’s ridiculous to move it! Anna’s right – its a historical & symbolic issue as well – Bryant Park is where is should be period.
XOXO
Amy
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Seems to me… like people(Blooberg & cronies) are more that too happy to dismantle the NYC fashion scene to make a quick buck…Bryant Park IS NYCFW!!!! first step towards dissolving the fashion district…what next will they move…?
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
sorry Bloomberg* sorry
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
That’s ridiculous to mlve it! Anna’s right – its a historical & symbolic issue as well – Bryant Park is where is shiuld be pwriod.
XOXO
Amy;
September 29th, 2009 at 1:10 am
So glad you all feel the importance of such an internationally recognized prominent NYC fashion event remaining in our neighborhood.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Sorry for my not-so-prompt reply, this has been on my to-do before labor starts list!
As you know I work for Bryant Park Corporation also, I wanted to comment and start a dialogue on the park’s position. Here’s our biggest issue as the group that manages the park and tries to keep the public’s best interest in mind for all event decisions: if Fashion Week in New York City were later in the fall (October), and later in the late winter (March), it would be easier to welcome such a large and prominent private event in the park. Because now the lawn and the free skating rink must close very early in the season to make way for an event that is not open to the public, we get many complaints about the disruption to the park.
So, now that I’ve officially spoken and stated, I’m very curious about your opinion regarding the dates: feasible, or impossible?!