NY Fashion Week is moving?

| Posted Mar 26th 2008 9:30AM by Josh Loposer
Filed under: Style in the media, Fashion Week: New York

I know it's hard to believe, but starting in 2010, NY Fashion Week will have to find a new home away from Bryant Park, where it's been since 1993. IMG World, the organizers of Fashion Week, are in a kind of standoff with Bryant Park officials who say the event has come to monopolize the park. Where the tents will end up, nobody knows for sure. There was talk of the festivities moving over to the soon-to-be developed 10th Avenue Rail yards, but it looks like that idea is getting scratched in favor of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

No -- I'm not making this up. The foremost event in US fashion might one day end up on the roof of a smelly old bus terminal, but there are some upsides -- like having access to the terminal's sweet vending machines. The New York Times office is right across the street too, so I'm sure they'll like that. Right now, the heads of the Port Authority are trying to sell the idea to IMG, the only major problem is that there aren't adequate elevators to get people up to the roof.

Tags: Bryant Park, BryantPark, Fashion Week, FashionWeek, IMG World, ImgWorld, New York, New York Times, NewYork, NewYorkTimes, Port Authority Bus Terminal, PortAuthorityBusTerminal