By Maria Esteves – September 23, 2012
New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week presented by IMG Fashion, is one of the world’s most influential semi-annual fashion event that showcase established and emerging designers from around the world. It is the forefront of fashion design, manufacturing, and retail for industry professionals.

Since 1943, New York Fashion Week gave American designers a chance to showcase their work. Today, New York Fashion Week presents nearly 500 semi-annual shows (September, February), employs 173,000, and generates $10 billion. Mayor Michael Bloomberg plan Fashion.NYC.2020 for New York to remain as the future global fashion capital.

New York Fashion Week TODD ANTHONY TYLER Breakfast
Event at Morimoto, International Photographer
Todd Anthony Tyler, and host/producer/actress Dawn
Wilkner holding gift bag provided by Whiting & Davis,
Thursday, September 6, 2012.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week NOON BY NOOR
Spring/Summer 2013 Runway Show at Lincoln Center,
designers Noor Rashid Al Khalifa, left, and Haya
Mohammed Al Khalifa Friday, September 7, 2012.

India de Beaufort sitting front row at Mercedes-Benz
Fashion Week NOON BY NOOR Spring/Summer 2013
Runway Show in Lincoln Center, Friday, September 7, 2012.

Olivia Palermo sitting front row at Mercedes-Benz
Fashion Week NOON BY NOOR Spring/Summer 2013
Runway Show in Lincoln Center, Friday,
September 7, 2012.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week PROJECT RUNWAY Season 10
Spring 2013 fashion show in Lincoln Center, judges designer
Michael Kors, center, with Heidi Klum and Academy
Award-winning actress and Grammy winner singer Jennifer
Hudson, Friday, September 7, 2012.

PROJECT RUNWAY Season 10 Spring 2013 fashion
show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Lincoln
Center, mentor Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum, Friday,
September 7, 2012.

JILL STUART Spring 2013 Collection at Mercedes
Benz Fashion Week in Lincoln Center, designer
Jill Stuart, Saturday, September 8, 2012.

Founder and publisher Ruth Finley, Fashion Calendar with daughter in-law and grandsons in attendance at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week LACOSTE Spring/Summer 2013 Runway Show in Lincoln Center, Saturday, September 8, 2012.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week RAFAEL CENNAMO
Spring 2013 Presentation at Lincoln Center
designer Rafael Cennamo Saturday, September 8, 2012.

Editor Marylou Luther, International Fashion Syndicate
at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week DIANE von FURSTENBERG
Spring 2013 Runway Show at Lincoln Center, Sunday,
September 9, 2012.

New York Fashion Week ANKAR SWEDEN Spring/Summer
2013 Presentation at PJ Clarke’s Empire Hotel, designer
Niklas Ankar, center with models Tuesday, September 11, 2012.

Senior vice president and fashion director
Ken Downing, Neiman & Marcus at Mercedes
Benz Fashion Week NAEEM KHAN Spring/Summer
2013 Runway Show in Lincoln Center,
Tuesday, September 11, 2012.

Editor-in-chief Ann Wintor, Vogue Magazine at
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week VERA WANG Spring 2013
Runway Show in Lincoln Center, Tuesday, September 11, 2012.