Fashionista reports on a new home for NYFW:<\/p>\n
In a few years, [the 7 train] will be the closest subway to the Hudson Yards, which will soon be the official location of New York Fashion Week\u2013at least if Diane von Furstenberg, Steven Kolb and Mayor Bloomberg have anything to do with it.
\nNot only are they endorsing the massive Westside development as fashion week\u2019s next location (as was reported back in 2011), but they\u2019ve actually been working with developers to ensure that the Culture Shed\u2013a mixed use space in which shows would be held\u2013is designed withNew York Fashion Week in mind, meaning it would be the first permanent structure more or less designed specifically for NYFW.
\nIn fact, it was basically von Furstenberg\u2019s idea in the first place. In 2006, she was meeting with Dan Doctoroff, then NYC\u2019s Debuty Mayor. She tells WWD: \u201cHe asked me what I wished for, and I said, \u2018Give us a pier for fashion week.\u2019 Dan smiled and we started to talk. The idea of Culture Shed was born.\u201d
\nKolb told the trade that the CFDA has been working with the Hudson Yards on the development of the Culture Shed, with the \u201cultimate result of it being a potential home for fashion week.\u201d
\nWWD reports that the Culture Shed will be comprised of four runways, studios, exhibition space and \u201ca dramatic 140-foot-high canopy that slides along tracks to create indoor and outdoor space\u201d. It will be located on West 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, aka really, really far away from everything, except the rest of the Hudson Yards, which will also include a 750,000-square-foot retail center, dining, cinemas, a food market, office towers, and access to the 7 train.
\nOf course, given the fact that most off-site shows are staged at Milk Studios or elsewhere on the far west side of Manhattan, it\u2019s a pretty convenient location. It will also make Upper West Siders, who\u2019ve called fashion week an \u201cassault\u201d on their neighborhood, and have been trying to get it moved, very happy.
\nThe Culture Shed will reportedly be operational by 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fashionista reports on a new home for NYFW: In a few years, [the 7 train] will be the closest subway to the Hudson Yards, which will soon be the official location of New York Fashion Week\u2013at least if Diane von Furstenberg, Steven Kolb and Mayor Bloomberg have anything to do with it. Not only are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1171,1170,1169,517,615,616,618,516,622],"class_list":["post-10676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bloomberg","tag-david-bloomberg","tag-diane-von-furstenberg","tag-fashion-week","tag-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-nyfw","tag-runway","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10678,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions\/10678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}