Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center Fact Sheet
September 9-16, 2010
Upgraded Venues
Gracious Lobby
- Main Lobby separation from guest holding areas/lines
- More seating areas and useable work spaces for guests
- Modernized digital signage
- Free flowing sponsorship areas with expanded services for guests
- Streamlined guest management onsite
The Theatre (969 Designer Seating)
- Larger backstage area
- New upstage video wall
- Larger, more robust scenic truss
The Stage (740 Designer Seating)
- Modernized Stadium Seating
- Bench Seating with customizable cushions on seating risers
- White walls with gray carpet
The Studio (396 Designer Seating)
- New gray interior décor
- Larger seating capacity
- Longer and wider runway
- Seating raked higher for better sightline, comparable with larger venues
- Finished and lined interior walls
- Solid proscenium wall
The Box Presentation Space (Capacity for 125 people)
- Industry demand for more flexible ‘4th Venue’
- Space for live and/or still life presentations and industry activities
- Black interior décor
The Courtyard (Outdoor Garden)
- Glass walled, formal tree filled courtyard
- Informal presentations
Upgraded Online Experience
- Expanded designer centric website
- Updated Registration and Credentialing System
- New designer seating program
- Synchronized credentialing and designer seating systems
- Partnership with industry leader Fashion GPS
Press Room and Facilities for Media
- Additional work areas for print and online media
- Improved electronic press handling and seating system
- Expanded press check in and credentialing facilities
- Press materials available for download (electronic press room)
Overall LC Campus
- Campus provides multiple venues for presentations, additional shows and otherindustry activities
- Opportunity for future consumer related activities around the industry focused shows
- Multiple restaurants, cafés and other areas for meetings, lounging or working
West Side Corridor Transportation
- Convenient to West Side transportation hubs as well as Seventh Avenue Subway Line (weather sheltered access to Lincoln Center stop on Subway line)
- 9th Avenue (Columbus) and 10th Avenue (Amsterdam) provide relatively light traffic uptown and downtown corridors
- Improved facilities for transportation handling and inclement weather, car service pick up and drop off, town car waiting areas and onsite parking
Contact:
Ian Wagasky, IMG Fashion, (646) 871-2479, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Karen Peterson, CFDA, (212) 768-5708, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Betsy Vorce, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5100, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Andrew Brent, City of New York, (212) 788-2958 , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it