Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week begins today, kicking off more than 200 fashion shows and events that will happen at Lincoln Center and other locations through Sept. 15. Shows will preview what’s coming for the Spring/Summer 2012 season and showcase special events, like the taping of the finale for the popular fashion reality show Project…

One of the most eagerly anticipated events of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York — the taping of the Project Runway finale — went down Friday morning, leaving a frenzy of speculation in its wake. Currently in the midst of its ninth season, Project Runway is a popular reality competition show for fashion designers. Because…

Designer Korto Momolu became a fan favorite when she appeared in 2008 on the fashion-based reality competition show Project Runway. This season the Liberian native, whose successes include an accessories line in Dillard’s department stores, is doing back-to-back fashion shows — Sept. 9 at New York Fashion Week and Sept. 10 in Washington, D.C. She…

In a fashion world where designers come and go for all manner of reasons — stylistic as well as financial — Tracy Reese has been able to sustain her label through the years, growing it into one of the more successful and popular lines by a younger generation of American designers. Reese showed her Spring…

For Spring 2012, the fashion world is urging fashion fans to cheer up and chase the blues away. Light, bright and breezy were the themes of the week as designers displayed their Spring 2012 collections on the catwalks of New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, which began Sept. 8 and ended Thursday. The semiannual event featured…

The recently opened Broadway play Stick Fly boasts some of the biggest names in the entertainment and theater worlds onstage and behind the scenes. The play, by Lydia R. Diamond, about an upper-middle-class black family during a weekend on Martha’s Vineyard, stars Mekhi Phifer, Dulé Hill and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Grammy Award-winning songstress Alicia Keys not…

Audrey Smaltz has been a central part of New York Fashion Week since 1977, before there was even a name coined for the semiannual collection of fashion shows that present designers’ visions for the following season. When New York Fashion Week began Thursday, Smaltz was in the middle of the action. She had five shows…