The highlight of the style conscious calendar is fast approaching, as Fashion Week is about to hit New York City. For the first time since 1993, this fashion spectacle will be taking place in a brand new venue.

On September the 9th, the Lincoln Center, located on the upper west side, will be opening its doors to the most stylish and influential audience in the fashion industry. With the reputation of being home to the City’s most affluent, cultural and artistic inhabitants, the upper west side will be the ideal location for New York’s most prestigious fashion event.

New York Fashion Week had been showing at Bryant Park for the last 17 years and many designers had subsequently settled into offices and showrooms close-by, therefore unsurprisingly there was outrage amongst the designers who felt put out at the prospect of having to ferry their collection further uptown. Although the tents have become an iconic symbol of the famous event, the new venue is set to mark the dawn of a new era.

The new and bigger location will enable the event to welcome additional fresh talent to the shows, as well as allowing for better use of technology. For example, guests will now have the ability to check themselves in to the fashion shows by using bar code scanners and kiosks. This welcome improvement will lend a hand to the organisers of the event, helping it run as smoothly and as efficiently as possible.

Visitors will be flocking to the City to soak up the atmosphere, which will naturally boost the already thriving economy. The fashion and lifestyle blog, Stylelist, estimated that around $56million is spent on hotels in New York alone by visitors coming to see the spring and fall shows.

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