NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011: Your Guide to the Illustrious Fashion Gala

Models at the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 runway shows will be strutting down the catwalks at the Lincoln Center this year, instead of the tents at Bryant Park. The move for the highly anticipated fashion event to the Lincoln Center at 65 N. Broadway provides more accessibility in transportation, advances in technology for the registration process, and larger gathering accommodations for designers, industry professionals, guests, and the press. NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 commences on September 9^th (Rosh Hashanah) with the first show at 9 a.m. and will end on September 16^th with the starting of the last show at 9 p.m.

IMG Fashion Worldwide, the fashion leader behind the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 event, has teamed up with NYC based technology firm, Control Group, to utilize the exclusive Fashion GPS. The Fashion GPS is first-rate, 21^st century technology that will help streamline and facilitate the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 registration and event check-in process. IMG Fashion Worldwide has also sought the business of Tender to upgrade the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 website with designer media, downloadable schedules, social networking, and backstage information.

Key events happening during NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 are the popular Fashion Night Out party hosted by Vogue, the Z Spoke by Zac Posen catwalk, the Chabad of West 60's high holiday Jewish services, the honoring of Carolina Herrera as the "Mercedes-Benz Presents" designer, and the debut of many novel fashion designers.

This will be the second year that Vogue will host the Fashion Night Out party during the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2011. Last year's event was a huge success, and this year's will be no different. Slated to begin at 6 p.m. on September 10^th, the four hour shopping party will have multiple designer retail shops in the NYC vicinity with their doors wide open for you to start crossing off the items on your Fall 2010 fashion shopping list. Need inspiration? Vogue will also be showcasing a major runway show featuring 200 designers on September 7^th prior to the event just to provide us with some of the top fall 2010 trends. Tickets to the Fashion Night Out shopping gala have been available for sale since this summer, and partial of the proceeds will go to benefit the NYC AIDS fund. There will even be a musical performance by classic designer and Project Runway guest, Michael Kors. You can view more details at www.fashionnightout.com.

Z Spoke by Zac Posen will be the only fashion line by Zac Posen to be featured at the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 event. The rest of the Zac Posen collection will be shown in the upcoming Paris Fashion Week. This is a special opportunity to view the reasonably priced, Americanized line by Zac Posen, which is currently being distributed at Saks Fifth Avenue stores. The Z Spoke by Zac Posen runway is scheduled at 7 p.m., September 11^th during the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2011.

The NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for Spring 2011 event starts on Rosh Hashanah, and this can cause some scheduling conflicts for many renowned Jewish designers (Zac Posen and Diane von Furstenberg for example) at the runway shows. Chabad of West 60's will be hosting free high holiday Jewish services and classes at the Krishna Institute (very close to the Lincoln Center) during the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2011 event. High Holiday services begin at dusk on September 8^th. For more details on the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services being offered that week, go to www.chabadw60s.com.

Venezuelan designer, Carolina Herrera, has been designated as the "Mercedes-Benz Presents" featured designer for her commitment to using quality materials in her clothing lines. Other noteworthy collections that will be captivating the runways at the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 event will be: BCBGMAXAZRIA at 10 a.m. on September 10^th, Charlotte Ronson at 7 p.m. on September 11^th, Derek Lam at 10 a.m. on September 12^th, DKNY at 2 p.m. on September 13^th, Vera Wang at 11 a.m. on September 14^th, Michael Kors at 10 a.m. on September 15^th, and L.A.M.B at 8 p.m. on September 16^th.

You can view the full schedule for all of the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 shows at www.mbfashionweek.com.