Celebrate New York Fashion Week

Ready to celebrate New York Fashion WeekThe tenth anniversary of 9 / 11 will be in the minds of many New Yorkers this weekend. However, fashion designers and labels will have their eyes on the catwalks of Lincoln Center for the annual Fashion Week in New York, Mercedes Benz, which runs Thursday through Sept. 15.

"The whole mythology of the fashion world is waiting," said Professor Hazel Clark, dean of the History of Art and Design at Parsons The New School for Design. "Right now, it waits for spring 2012. This is what it is. "
On the morning of September 11, 2001, were white tents and stiletto heels loudly tracks were established in Bryant Park. New York Fashion Week 2001 was cut short due to the attacks of 9 / 11. Many designers showed their collections in the silence of journalists and buyers of clothing.
Ten years later, the organizer of Fashion Week in New York, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), no events planned for Fashion Week to honor the anniversary of 9 / 11.
"We have always had to deal with 9 / 11 just based on the calendar of fashion and works created," said CFDA executive director Stephen Kolb.
Kolb said that although there were no distinctions 9 / 11 on the official agenda of Fashion Week, the association non-profit trade has been associated with the action in America to encouragemembers of the community of fashion in turn, on Sunday a day of service.
"We thought it was appropriate to support this idea of ​​turning the day into a day of action and the positive use of social media to spread the word," he said.
He said that some of the renowned designers such as Tommy Hilfiger and Diane Von Furstenberg would also give money for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
New York University Professor Pham Minh-Ha, which examined the relationship between the 11/09 and the world of fashion in an article entitled "The right to fashion in the age of terrorism," said he n ' was not surprising Fashion Week to be held as planned despite the anniversary of the attacks.
"It is not surprising when you consider how fashion has had a very short attention span," he said. "Fashion is change and change stations and accelerating. What happened a year ago are long gone. Fashion is nothing if not change. "
Some designers like Stephen Burrows Private will mark the anniversary of the attacks on Sunday. His friend Berry Berenson was the first of two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center.


"I just said a prayer for my friend and for all those who died," said Burrows. "That's all I will do. It is very private. While I am aware of that, life goes on. Observe and a moment of silence for me is enough.