Designer Alexander Wang, the big star of the upcoming New York Fashion Week, surprised industry insiders when he picked the Brooklyn Navy Yard for his big reveal.
Manhattan's fashion industry elite is throwing Brooklyn some serious shade.
Style watchers are kvetching about crossing the East River now that superstar designer Alexander Wang has moved his must-see Fashion Week show to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
'It's the biggest show in New York, so we're all going to be covering it - we're just going to be pissed,' said fashion photographer Hunter Flynn Abrams, who regularly covers the event for his own fashion photography site.
Wang is the first major designer to leave Manhattan for a Fashion Week event, choosing the stunning Duggal Greenhouse for the Feb. 8 reveal of his new collection.
Industry observers say he's the only designer - with exception of Marc Jacobs - with enough star power to force top fashion editors to schlep across the bridge for a show.
Despite rapid development in recent years, Brooklyn remains a foreign land for the high-powered editors and stylists who fill the audience for most Fashion Week events.
'I don't even go over to Brooklyn to visit my good friend,' said fashion stylist and consultant Ann Caruso, who worked at Vogue for six years before starting her own company. The borough has hosted its own, unaffiliated fashion week for the past six years - a fact largely ignored by major corporate sponsors and the glossy magazines.
'Everybody always goes to Manhattan. They make a big deal about Fashion Week, but what about Brooklyn?' said Fashion Week Brooklyn spokeswoman Gwen Armstrong. 'You'd be astounded by the number of designers in Brooklyn.'
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The packed schedule of New York Fashion Week makes a Brooklyn show a logistical 'nightmare,' said longtime fashion photographer Jennifer Graylock, who who has shot for InStyle, US Weekly and People, among other magazines.
'Editors will have to give up one show to see another show,' Graylock said. 'To get to Brooklyn, they're going to have to give up two or three shows.'
Newly elected Brooklyn President Eric Adams, who last year hosted Fashion Week Brooklyn's opening night ceremony, this year promised that the Wang show is just the beginning.
'When New York's trend setters strut their stuff over to the Navy Yard, they'll conclude that Brooklyn's the best backdrop in New York City for fashion,' Adams said.
Brooklyn's creative class has always been edgier than the favorites of big fashion, and it was only a matter of time before the spotlight hit borough runways, Armstrong said.
'Really,' she reconsidered, 'it's just one little bridge.'
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