Point of View: Fashion Week shines for last time in Bryant Park
Posted by Lucky on Feb 25, 2010
New York Fashion Week kicked off on Feb. 11. It marked the start of the last New York Fashion to be held at Bryant Park, and now will also be remembered as the day acclaimed British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was found dead in his London home.
Between the massive screen updating live with Twitter feeds and the Blackberry addicted fashion scenesters attached to their phones at fashion week, it did not take long for news of McQueen’s death to create a pall and change the mood in the tents.
However, the shows must go on, and they did. Fashion week continued with tributes from various designers such as Betsey Johnson, who sent her final model down the runway with a sign that read “Long Live McQueen.”
While designers had no way of knowing such a tragedy would befall fashion week, many seemed to pay respects with predominantly black collections. It is not uncommon for the fall season to preview darker colors; the most recent fall seasons have done so using dark hues and jewel tones rather than black and shades of gray. Designers like Marc Jacobs, Diane von Furstenberg and Alexander Wang sent out lines full of the color of the night.
source: http://www.baylor.edu/lariat/news.php?action=story&story=69694
