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8B TIMES-DELTA ADVANCE-REGISTER Once upon a time, New York Fashion Week was synonymous with Bryant Park: Only the upper echelon of the indus- ry got invited, and the rest found out about the trends i nside the tents from the pages magazines. ut that was then. In the past five years, Fashion Week has moved uptown to Lincoln Center, many designers have expanded their lists of who gets past the velvet ropes to include influencers in the digital media realm, and off-shoots Fashion Week have cropped up across New York City. Heading into 2015, the twice-a-year fashion affair is about to enter yet another hapter. When the runway shows previewing looks for 2015 kick off on Thursday (Feb.

12) for a week, it will be the final time those under the umbrella of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week will be headquartered at Lincoln Center on Upper West Side. After this hows, Mercedes-Benz also will pull out as title sponsor for the tent shows, and WME-IMG (the company that owns Merc edes-Benz Fashion Week) is xpected to buy MADE Fash- i on Week, a series of shows in owntown Manhattan that started about five years ago as an alternative venue during New York Fashion Week. hese have largely been for p-and-coming designers to how their collections. All the while, questions about New York Fashion relevancy and who it eally should be for tradi- ional media? bloggers? celeb- ities? retailers? continue to challenge designers to think and rethink what a fashion show should be. Everything evolves.

the law of motion. New York Fash- i on Week is no teven Kolb, chief executive officer of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in an email. The departure from Lincoln enter was prompted by a lawsuit filed by city park advocates arguing that the 2.4- acre Damrosch Park space here the tents are erected hould no longer host private endors and events. According the New York Daily News, the Bloomberg administration allowed Lincoln Center to cut down trees and uproot azalea eds to make room for the emporary structures that oused the runway shows. Before the suit, Fashion Week would have been at Lincoln Center until 2020.

here are plans for the ulture Shed structure art of the new Hudson Yards development on West Side along the Hudson River eventually to become the ub for New York Fashion Week, Kolb says, but still nder construction. In the eantime, the search is on for another centralized spot for the runway shows come September. York Fashion Week is bigger than just the 60 shows a Lincoln Center. In total, there are almost 350 Kolb says. strength of New York Fashion Week mov- i ng forward should be built in reating a unified group of hows under New York Fash- i on Week that reflects the vitality of the industry and the But even before the boot rom Lincoln Center, some esigners have been pursuing ew locations for their shows it be for financial reasons, disenchantment with what some have described as a or vibe i nside the tents or just for the hance to try something different.

think that New York Fashion Week has definitely ecome more about the individual brands trying to express heir unique says Jim- Lepore Hagan, vice president of strategy for New York City-based designer Nanette Lepore, a native of Youngstown, Ohio. think that brands have responded to the ustomer demand for more narrative and more Nanette Lepore the i dea of everybody being tog inside the tents, he ays, it has to make This season, the brand will present its runway show at anew venue downtown in an attempt to create an environ- ent that better reflects it and i more intimate for those who a ttend. now looking at this as every season is an opportunity to reinvent what he says. a good hallenge for the brands to ome up with something This spirit of innovation and imagination is what the indus- ry is craving to keep New York Fashion Week engaging both for insiders and those the outside watching it all unfold on blogs, live Web streams and social media, says lifestyle reporter Patty Hughes. a style contributor on the talk how with an extensive background in runway show production, including years at work behind the scenes at New ork Fashion Week.

got to keep the a udiences she ays. want to see a little more punch to And where will that next take New York Fashion Week? or now, guess. ast season alone, Ralph Laur en and Opening Ceremony transformed their presentations into a spectacle projected against a fountain on a lake in Central Park and a lay at the Metropolitan Opera ouse, respectively. Or maybe New York Fashion Week even has potential to be televised someday, Hagan says. At its core, New York Fashion Week is still about selling Kolb says.

Fashion week has evolving style New York vent changes ith the times By Sara Bauknecht TNS TNS The temporary venue known as the tents at Lincoln Center, home to Mercedes-Benz Fashion week, during a revious season of Fashion Week. TNS Amodel walks the runway in the Nanette Lepore spring 2015 runway show at in September 2014 during ashion Week. sue because he was drunkenly shanghaied onto a pirate ship. At least, how I und erstand it. Business-wise the trip was a success, but as we made the ong trip in his rental car over he grapevine back towards Visalia, we both realized that we had already seen and talked about everything that Netflix has to offer.

It appears you can only praise for so long before left sitting in silence. It was in that silence that I found myself frantically earching my brain for a new topic of conversation. brother and I both have a nervous habit of needing to alk about something, any- hing, in social situations. This results in us telling uncomfort- a ble stories about mishaps while changing cat litter, em- arrassing times were hit in he crotch by something, or ven revealing temporary medical conditions that would be better left unsaid. I fared well at birthday party since I knew a handful of great friends, but I ould tell Nick was having a arder time.

While he was just fine communicating with the swarming crowd of infants, with the adults he had never met, his vocabulary matched Suddenly, in the car with him later, the fumbling of potential conversation-starters ceased in my mind. It ended, and I was surprised to find hat the silence at all awkward. There was no need spend our breath on filler, or eminisce on things we both a lready knew full well. The trange, often embarrassing, details about us were both utually known, and had been to me for 28 years. uch like my brother, I ealized, talk is cheap.

but his success is mostly due he ceaseless gears of his business mind that are constantly urning. It was with him that I always went door to door shoveling sidewalks, selling lemonade during the summers, and coffee in the blistering cold winters. When I was 8-years-old he even printed business cards for his own non-profit organi- ation called the Cats or SCF. Somehow he even convinced me to be- ome a member and made me sign a legally binding contract. I went running to my parents in tears once I realized the contract demanded a mon- tary donation to the group whenever I pet my own cat Furball.

he jokes on him, because twenty years later Furball is still alive and well at my pare nts-in-law home in Visalia. Considering penny- saving tendencies, I found it a iracle that he take me up on the offer to buy him unch. way, the meals are me this he said as he pulled ut his PayPal card. My dumbfounded expression must have forced him to explain himself. since staying ith you guys I have to get a hotel Honestly, I would have been i nsulted if there some ther angle that allowed Nick to walk away without losing a dime.

really banking on my connecting flight back home will be he said to me. way I can fit in another reunion with our grandparents during the layover in The entire agenda of his rip was based around a training session he was scheduled conduct in Fullerton. The pecifics of the training is a bit ard to describe succinctly, ut in a nutshell supposed to help bartenders say, uddy, I think had enough for one and hen shrug with a you when the guy later tries to Newcott Continued from Page 5B BETH NEWCOTT Shiloh is a big fan of his uncle Nick. Our cat Georgie Fruit, even bigger. Grail.

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The in the movie ave congregated on the lake for a surprise birthday party the guest of onor meets up with Jason before he can make it and pepperoni is the officially ecognized pizza for birthday parties. Think back to all the birth- ay parties ever had or been to. Chances are good there was at least one pepper- ni pizza being consumed. concede that at most places, epperoni is merely a placeholder for when your group decide on a better top- ing, but the Planning pepperoni is up to the task of being the sole pizza flavor- maker. Next event, slated or Wednesday, March 18, will showcase To keep up to date on up- oming Central Valley Horr or Club events, go to facebook.com/central valleyhorrorclub Follow Parker Bowman on twitter and hated by genre fans, Friday the 13th VII: The New he seventh entry proves that the iconic hockey-masked killer, Jason, has taken longer to kill than taken me to get my license card from the DMV.

In this installment, a girl with telekinetic powers travels to Camp Crystal Lake with her psychiatrist to ork through her feelings of guilt over her death years before. hink vs. It be a the 1 movie without a camp full of partying teens and you know it there ust happens to be a house full of attractive party-goers right next door. haracters include your standard slasher-movie stereotypes like ean Bad Fiction and That No Boys Like ntil She Takes Off Her Glasses To Reveal Been A ttractive All Jason is predictably eager to ruin a party, showing up to wreak ampy (pun intended) violence. The film, while obviously fun, is nearly devoid of blood and gore by slasher stand ards.

The film was released in 1988, when the MPAA was cracking down on horror ovies and seemed as eager ruin a fun party as Jason himself. As evidenced by the deleted scenes later released on DVD this movie could have been a Holy Horror Continued from Page 5B members. Be aware that it is a grim and graphic show. But i you think J.K. Simmons was scary in his award-win- ing performance in you should see how uch more terrifying he was Oz.

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