With models from spring-summer season 2025 in the center of the walkways, the New York Fashion Week came to an end this Wednesday (11). In addition to the fashion bets and the celebrity buzz, the settings chosen for the parades attracted attention.
Some tourist and architectural landmarks of the North American megalopolis were used as a backdrop to drive the narratives proposed by the designers.
A museum, a park, a skyscraper and even a ferry served as backdrops for the most sought-after shows of the week. Check it out below where the main NYFW shows took place and find out how to visit them on a trip to New York.
Top New York Fashion Week show locations and how to get there:
Alaïa: Guggenheim Museum
UNESCO Heritage Site as part of the projects of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was the stage for the summer fashion show Alaïa a Parisian label that landed with a show in New York for the second time – the first time was in 1982. While models like Kendall Jenner and Vittoria Ceretti walked down the iconic spiral corridors, celebrities like Rihanna and Lewis Hamilton watched the models on the ground floor.
Located on 5th Avenue, across from Central Park, the museum focuses on modern art and has works by Picasso, Manet and Paul Gauguin in its collection, as well as temporary exhibitions. Open daily, adults currently pay US$30; admission is free for children under 12, and on Mondays and Saturdays between 4pm and 5:30pm, visitors can contribute any amount they wish, with a minimum of US$1. A branch of the museum is scheduled to open in Abu Dhabi in 2025.
Off-White: Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2
THE Off white the streetwear label of the late Virgil Abloh, is now under the leadership of designer Ib Kamara, who presented the summer collection at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2 on the banks of the East River. Called “Duty Free”, the collection brought a bit of Africa and the United States to New York, with inspiration coming from Ghana, Sierra Leone and England.
On a daily basis, the pier serves as a sports hub, with two acres of grounds that include basketball courts, handball courts, pickleball courts and ping pong tables, as well as swings and a skating rink. Picnic tables, drinking fountains and restrooms are part of the pier, which has a wide boardwalk with views of Lower Manhattan.
Carolina Herrera: 28 Liberty Street
The heart of New York’s Financial District was the chosen address for the presentation of the brand’s summer 2025 collection, with actress Nina Dobrev and the brand herself. Carolina Herrera in the front row. The show took place more specifically in front of the Japanese sculptor’s rock garden Isamu Noguchi . The circular garden is below street level, in the skyscraper plaza 28 Liberty Street a 60-story office building formerly called One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
Dubbed “Sunken Garden,” Noguchi’s work dates back to the 1960s and features natural stones from Kyoto, Japan, placed on a granite surface. The site serves as an oasis in the middle of the city, and instead of pedestrians looking up at the skyscrapers, the artist invites them to look down.
Tommy Hilfiger: Staten Island Ferry
A ferry docked in Lower Manhattan was the chosen setting for the parade. Tommy Hilfiger . Celebrities such as Jisoo from Blackpink, members of K-pop band Stray Kids and siblings Jade and Leo Picon lined up to see the nautical-themed looks that guided the collection. The ferry used for the occasion has been decommissioned since 2021 and operated between Staten Island and Manhattan.
If you want to see other corners of New York from new angles, the ferry service between the two locations is still in operation. The route is offered from free mode and operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The ferry travels between the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island and the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Manhattan. Ferries typically run every 30 minutes.
PatBo: IAC Building
The only Brazilian brand on the New York Fashion Week calendar, PatBo by the Minas Gerais stylist Patricia Bonaldi brought lightness and delicacy to the IAC Building in the Chelsea area. Located in front of the area’s sports piers, the building is made entirely of glass and marked the first project by architect Frank Gehry in the city, the same architect behind the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles.
The 10-story office building was completed in 2006 for an estimated $150 million. Actress Camila Queiroz and model Alessandra Ambrosio walked the runway for PatBo, whose collection was called “Ethereal.”
Jason Wu: Hudson Yards
Based in New York, the designer Jason Wu presented its latest collection in the public square and garden in the neighborhood of Hudson Yards amidst an artistic installation in front of the The Vessel an attraction closed since 2021 that will possibly reopen at the end of the year.
Near the banks of the Hudson River, Hudson Yards is a real estate and commercial complex in Manhattan that has over 100 stores, as well as restaurants, bars, offices, a hotel and residences. In addition to The Vessel, the site is home to plazas and gardens and also The Shed, an arts center. The site is easily accessible by subway (line 7), train, bus and ferry.
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