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(apologies, no images for this show. Check out style.com for highlights)
The first show of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York was most certainly a memorable one. Having just dropped our bags off at the hotel, we arrived at the tents at Bryant Park just before 10am, which is when the Red Dress Collection show was scheduled to begin.
We managed to check-in fairly quickly and dashed inside the tents, press passes valiantly hinged around our necks. You didn’t know where to look first – the entrance was flanked by two Mercedes-Benz cars, and directly ahead a fountain had been transformed into a Barbie display for the doll’s 50th anniversary. To the left is a press lounge with tables and a cafe, and to the right some booths belonging to sponsors.
And then there were the people – some dressed up, some dressed down, nothing really beyond what you’d see at any other fashion event really. Over-the-top was balanced by uber-casual with every other notch in between accounted for as well. Everyone looks incredibly serious.
The audience filed into the main tent and it was nice to see a large portion of the audience wearing red. Lights dimmed and Tim Gunn of Project Runway appeared to introduce the show. The Red Dress is the symbol for The Heart Truth, a national awareness campaign designed to educate women about heart disease and what they can do to lower their risk. The Red Dress show debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2003 and sends celebrities down the catwalk wearing designer dresses in lieu of models.
- Amanda Bynes in Daniel Swarovski
- Jennie Garth in Badgley Mischka – she was all smiles
- Tori Spelling in Betsey Johnson – she was practically bouncing down the runway. loved the dress.
- Vivica A Fox in Jenny Packam – dress was ok, but Viv friggin’ worked that runway, and it may not look it on TV but that woman has some curves.
- Lynda Carter in Carolina Herrera
- Daisy Fuentes in Pamella Roland
- Kristi Yamaguchi in Vera Wang
- Natasha Henstridge in Verrier
- Nia Long in Tracy Reese
- Brittany Snow in Marchesa
- Nastia Liukin in Max Azria
- Valerie Bertinelli in Christian Siriano
- Amanda Beard in Cushnie et Ochs
- Patricia Arquette in Nicole Miller – the cab we took from the airport had this little spot about Patricia and her stab at directing so it was cool to see her like an hour later on the runway.
- Samantha Harris in David Meister
- Cicely Tyson in B. Michael – crowd pleaser! waltzed down that runway in such a theatrical manner.
- Jane Kaczmarek in Michael Kors – was one of my absolute favourites, this woman seems like a riot and her dress looked fabulous.
- Susan Lucci in Gustavo Cadile
- Hilary Duff in Donna Karan – she looked uncomfortable, which I found a bit shocking as she is on stage all the time.
- Katie Couric in Carmen Marc Valvo – didn’t quite know what to do with her hands at first but figured it out pretty quickly.
The thing I noticed (and appreciated) most is that all of these women became so real when they came down that runway. None had a perfect body, their hair got stuck in their lipgloss, they warbled on their heels, some seemed quite nervous – it was great to see some normalcy on the runways for once!
Christian Siriano and Miss J (who looked surprisingly…manly) were spotted in the front row facing me. Who knows who was on my side!
