A Brief (and Not-So-Serious) Primer on the New-New York Fashion Week

Your tongue-in-cheek guide to the all-new, all-different New York Fashion Week.

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The biannual brand synergy and air kissing convention colloquially known as “New York Fashion Week” has officially begun, complete with new venues and a new visual identity for which someone surely overpaid. 

Now liberated from both the unseemly slum of Lincoln Center, the Fashion™ flock will settle into Skylight Moynihan Station—a far tonier miasma of construction being transformed into a future Amtrak hub, and Skylight Clarkson Square—which famously hosted Kanye West's Yeezy Season 1 show, on an industrial stretch on the far western reaches of SoHo, or South West Village, or Upper TriBeCa. No one really knows how to describe this part of town except Rick Owens, who calls it “homey.” New York Fashion Week: Men’s got the jump here this summer, so by now the complaints should be finely polished. Inside Tip: Both of these spaces are called “Skylight,” so to display your NYFW bonafides, simply refer to them in the same way, with a heavy sigh. 

The spring shows exist now mostly as a short interlude of commerce between fashion’s true love: sweating in Queens while pretending to understand tennis. Which means unless you wish to be laughed out of the city, immediately busting out to the U.S. Open on the 7 is of foremost importance. 

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