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Vintage Spotting: What Fashion Week Used To Be Like

Written by emilyc

What was New York Fashion Week like back in the day? Well, it wasn’t even called Fashion Week, it was called Press Week, and before there was Anna Wintour, there was Eleanor Lambert. She was the fashion publicist who started Press Week in 1943 in an effort to make America a more prominent player in the international fashion scene (Paris, we’re looking at you).

You wouldn’t have seen any Nicki Minaj-es in the front row, but there would have been plenty of socialites, Carmel Snow (Harper’s Bazaar editor from 1934 to 1958 – a mag editor’s reign second only to Wintour), Rita Hayworth (who never removed her sunnies during a show – some Fashion Week things never change), and Andy Warhol. It wasn’t until 1994 that the CFDA created New York Fashion Week at Bryant Park.

Check out Carmel Snow’s timeless sequin top/leopard clutch combo:

Images via The Cut.

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emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.

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