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If you don’t have a golden ticket to sit with the insiders at New York Fashion Week, fortunately you can now watch live streaming shows thanks to the growing number of individual designers and fashion sites that have been offering web users a front-row seat.

For the first time, the organizers of Fashion Week are streaming more than 30 Lincoln Center shows — including those of Diane Von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez and Carolina Herrera — on one website at YouTube.com/liverunway, in a partnership with YouTube and Maybelline New York. Also for the first time, the shows will be streamed live on your smartphone at m.youtube.com/liverunway.

“Fashion has become much more democratic in the last decade and certainly in the last five years,” said Judy Licht, creator of the television program “Full Frontal Fashion,” which once again plans to stream more than two dozen shows live during New York Fashion Week, including Calvin Klein and Donna Karan.

The live stream provides exciting real-time access to an insider experience that’s normally restricted to buyers, editors, and fashion insiders.

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The terrace of Avery Fisher Hall as dusk descended over Lincoln Center was the grand setting Zac Posen chose for his return to New York fashion week. The designer famously left his hometown for the City of Light a year ago, declaring, in so many words, that a Paris audience would understand his clothes better. That turned out not to be the case. But this prodigal-son story has a happy ending. He neither overplayed nor tempered his creative instincts, as he had in his first and second seasons, respectively, in Paris. On the contrary: The well-executed dresses and gowns he put on his runway reminded some in the audience of the designer’s early-aughts glory days. Posen focused on cut and fit—the more precise, the better. If corsets aren’t your friends, ladies, this designer is not the man for you. With the accent firmly on the waist, he paired narrow, elongated jackets with high armholes with pencil skirts, and whipped up party dresses with flaring, knee-length hems. Among the mermaid gowns, a midnight blue cord-embroidered sleeveless top and matching evening skirt stood out for the way the look said, “I’m an ingenue,” rather than, “I’m a diva.” We all know Posen can bring the drama; insouciance could turn out to be a growth market for him. (by Nicole Phelps – style.com)

As it turns 50—and gets a face-lift—this complex chunk of city deserves rethinking.

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