Special thanks to: Joe Yang and Seventh House PR, Sidney Prawatyotin and Krupp Group, LaForce + Stevens, Paul Wilmot Communications, Caitlin Lux, Ruffian PR, Elizabeth Walker of Tibi, and all the designers who make each fashion week incredible.

By Stephanie Castro

New York Fashion Week opened Feb. 11 as Manhattan was dressed in a blanket of white flurry and several inches of snow. A snowstorm had gripped the city and the fashion community unexpectedly had lost one of its greatest talents, Alexander McQueen. Some presentations were canceled because garments were stuck in airports around the world. It was an unwelcome start to the fall collections for 2010. 

But as the snow melted and McQueen's storefront in the Meatpacking District became a memorial for his undisputed talent, the shows went on- albeit fashionably late. 

New York Fashion Week makes New York beautiful in so many ways. It is a showcase of the hard work designers put in months after months. It is a parade of style on the streets, an embodiment of creativity, trends, and panache. Twice a year,  the fashion community gathers at locations city-wide for presentations and runway shows, but no site is more famous than the background Bryant Park has created for fashion. 

After 17 years of the white tents being erected in Bryant Park, New York Fashion Week will take its stilettos and spirit to Lincoln Center this fall. Bidding farewell to Midtown, "It's onward and upward to Lincoln Center," Tommy Hilfiger said, after his bow, which closed out the week, and tents forever, on Wednesday night. This year's tent exterior design offered nostalgic quotes from designers, models, and press who had seen the park become synonymous with fashion since it's first season in 1993. More than 2,000 shows graced the catwalks and countless luminaries dashed up the front stairs of the fashion hub.

Bryant Park was Fashion Week's home for so long, but like most New Yorkers- it had outgrown its space. With more than 200,000 attendees each year including the fall season, and 70 runway shows and presentations per season, the decision to find a new destination had to happen. Lincoln Center will give the event 25 percent more space for more than three runways - Bryant Park's current catwalk allotment - as well as one of the largest underground parking facilities the city has to offer. 

Lincoln Center is iconic; a cultural center and mecca that will now encompass all facets of art including fashion. As many critics have pointed out, it also will give designers the well-deserved credibility of artists.