New York Fashion Week or Mercedes Benz Fashion Week will start rolling in the New York City from September 8, 2011. Designers are flooding the Internet with their webcasts, blogs, news and Tweets to tap a huge pool of virtual audience, other than guests who will be physically present at the shows. Likewise, every fashion enthusiast is excited and intensifying the air with his/her assumptions and forecasts – “what’s new this season?” as the Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2012 heads towards the verge of its curtain raise.
Websites or #nyfw? – What Are the Best Ways to Catch Up on the NYC Fashion Week?
During the shows (from September 8, 2011 Thursday to September 15, 2011, the following Thursday), designers will air live webcast of their runway shows and exclusive footage of backstage through their blogs (e.g Tumbler) and vblogs, Twitter (can be followed with #nyfw) and Facebook feeds, and Instagram accounts, etc. Global fashion enthusiasts can also track the fashion week calendar, and news and footage from the official website of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, New York. Even fashion presses will churn out news and reviews, mobile clips live from the shows, and slideshow-based visual reports inviting your comments. Here are the best sites, videos, Tweets, Tumblr and Instagram accounts you can count on to follow the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring Summer 2012:
Websites
Official website of New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
The official website of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, as expected, will cover every minutest detail of the New York Fashion Week 2012. The site will air full schedules of the fashion week, display extensive video footage and photo slideshow from the shows, designer profiles, and other events on a day to day basis. You can simply ‘add to calendar’ all of these, with just one click. The site is an ultimate place to view live streaming, catch up on latest news, giveaways and press releases.
Style.com
Style.com is one of the top-favorites among fashion aficionados for its intelligent reviews of fashion weeks. The site is also mostly visited by fans for its extensive collection of photographs, its coverage of the runway shows, and also the exclusive backstage stories (keep an eye on Style.com People + Parties section for this).
Fashion Etc.
Fashion Etc. was created by Amina Akhtar, the same person who is behind the founding of ‘The Cut’. Fashion Etc. will let you follow the fashion week 2012 NYC through loads of online slideshows and reviews. The unique thing you will notice about the site is its ‘Fashion Week diary’, which attempts to bring forth the inside stories of the parties and shows of New York Spring/Summer 2012 fashion week.
Heard on the Runway and On the Runway
As the names suggest, these two websites have been designed to extensively cover the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. While, Heard on the Runway will fetch updates from The Wall Street Journal (including all the tweets and Foursquare feeds of The WSJ fashion reporters), On the Runway will bring style blogs from The New York Times including updates and slideshows.
Along with these websites, follow Tweets of @womensweardaily, @EHolmesWSJ, @CathyHorynNYT, @evachen212, @jimshi809, @elvainadine, @DetailsMatt, @cutblog, @CNFashion, and @nyfw. Tumblr bloggers worth following are WWD, dknyprgirl and Teen Vogue. If you crave for more visual reports than texts, check out Instagram visual reports of usernames like oscarprgirl, simonesoliver, evachen212, manrepeller and burberry.
The fashion week is ready to amaze you with its latest selection of trends in apparel, accessories and make-up and hair. In addition, new and veteran participating designers, models, and stylists will also wait to awe-inspire you. Catch up the all the latest happenings online and be the first one to follow the predicted trends.
