MD September, 26 Travel

NY Documentary — Fashion Week

Nueva York durante la Fashion Week parece acelerar: un diario visual sobre momentos cotidianos que revelan el ritmo de la ciudad en una de sus semanas más intensas.

The Look

What to wear on NY Fashion week

Buttoned Midi Dress, Mini Leather Shoulder Bag

The Look 02: slingback heels and white shirt — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Oversized Fluid Shirt, Slingback Heels

The Look 03: black blazer and sunglasses — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Wool Two-Button Blazer, Oversized Wrap Sunglasses

Slingback Heels+

Mini Leather Shoulder Bag+

Oversized Fluid Shirt+

Two-button 100% extra-fine wool blazer — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Wool Two-Button Blazer+

Oversized Wrap Sunglasses+

Buttoned Midi Dress+

Empire State Building with two pigeons on a street lamp, New York — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

A Fashion Week City Guide

byMassimo Dutti Paper

During Fashion Week, we discover New York from south to north. With no single venue, shows and presentations take place across different parts of the city, turning the streets and journeys between appointments into part of the experience.

Start Downtown

SoHo — Cast Iron & Fashion

We begin in SoHo, one of downtown Manhattan’s great classics.
Its cast-iron façades, large windows and cobblestone streets preserve the neighborhood’s industrial memory. This is a place to look up: columns, cornices and metal structures create an almost graphic architecture that has become an inseparable part of New York’s visual identity.

Birds on a wire with the Manhattan skyscrapers behind — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Brick corner with fire escapes in Nolita — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Yellow cab in front of the cast-iron façades of Greene Street, SoHo — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

SoHo cast-iron façades in black and white — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Yellow cabs parked on a New York street — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Cast-iron façade of the Haughwout Building, SoHo — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Traffic light and street lamp in black and white, SoHo — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

To see

^{( 01 )}Greene Street — one of the best perspectives on the neighborhood’s cast-iron architecture.

^{( 02 )}Haughwout Building — one of SoHo’s finest historic examples of cast-iron architecture.

^{( 03 )}The Puck Building — late-19th-century industrial architecture between SoHo and Nolita.

^{( 04 )}Judson Memorial Church — architecture and culture beside Washington Square, marking the transition towards the Village.

The Empire State Building seen through a window — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

East

Lower East Side — New York at Street Level

From SoHo, we head east and the city changes scale.
Brick buildings, old tenements, fire escapes and a far more heterogeneous urban fabric begin to appear. This is a less monumental, more spontaneous New York, where layers of history coexist with one of downtown’s most dynamic creative scenes.

The Manhattan Bridge in black and white — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

The Manhattan Bridge seen from a street of brick buildings — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Water tower and façades on the Lower East Side — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

To see

^{( 01 )}Seward Park Library — a 1909 Carnegie library and one of the Lower East Side’s historic public buildings.

^{( 02 )}Seward Park — one of the neighborhood’s historic green spaces.

^{( 03 )}Manhattan Bridge — its approaches and perspectives visually connect Manhattan and Brooklyn.

^{( 04 )}Essex Street — a place to observe the architecture and urban transformation of the Lower East Side.

^{( 05 )}Sara D. Roosevelt Park — a long green corridor running through different layers of downtown.

Platform of an elevated New York subway station — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

East 21st Street sign with façades behind — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

West

West Village — The Human Scale

Heading west, an entirely different New York emerges.
In the West Village, Manhattan seems to momentarily abandon its grid. Streets change direction, while trees, townhouses, brownstones and small squares appear. The scale becomes more domestic and the pace more relaxed.
Perhaps the best recommendation here is not to follow the map too closely: simply walk and let the architecture itself lead the way.

Detail of the Washington Square Arch — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Washington Square Park with the arch and the tower behind — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

The Washington Square Park fountain — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Ivy-covered townhouse in the West Village — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

To see

^{( 01 )}Jefferson Market Library — a former Victorian courthouse transformed into a library and one of the Village’s most distinctive buildings.

^{( 02 )}Washington Square Park — one of downtown’s essential gathering places.

^{( 03 )}Washington Square Arch — an architectural landmark framing the view towards Fifth Avenue.

^{( 04 )}Gay Street — one of the small streets that best captures the scale of the Village.

^{( 05 )}Christopher Park — a small green space surrounded by the neighborhood’s historic architecture.

Brownstone stoops in the West Village — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

The Washington Square Arch in black and white with the tower behind — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Follow
the Hudson North

Chelsea & Meatpacking — The Reinvention of the City

As we approach the Hudson, the urban landscape transforms once again.
Chelsea and the Meatpacking District retain traces of their industrial past, but today those buildings coexist with contemporary architecture, art and some of the public-space projects that have redefined this part of Manhattan.
From here, The High Line offers a different way to continue north: a former railway transformed into a park, providing an elevated perspective on façades, vegetation and new architecture.

Little Island on the Hudson with the skyline behind — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Iron skybridge between brick buildings at Chelsea Market — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

The glass façade of Frank Gehry’s IAC Building — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

A Meatpacking District street with traffic and brick buildings — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

The High Line’s vegetation with the Empire State behind — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

To see

^{( 01 )}The High Line — former railway infrastructure transformed into an elevated park.

^{( 02 )}Little Island — landscape, architecture and public space above the Hudson.

^{( 03 )}Chelsea Market Building — former industrial architecture from the Nabisco complex.

^{( 04 )}IAC Building — Frank Gehry’s architecture beside the Hudson.

^{( 05 )}Pier 57 — an industrial structure reimagined as a new urban space on the waterfront.

Brick skybridge between two Chelsea buildings — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Little Island’s piers in black and white — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Back into the Grid

Flatiron & NoMad —
Architecture in Layers

Leaving the Hudson behind, Flatiron and NoMad turn our gaze back towards the heart of Manhattan.
Here, historic architecture coexists with an identity increasingly connected to design and contemporary creativity.
Broadway cuts across the grid, creating unexpected perspectives. The city regains a sense of scale and monumentality, while remaining a place designed to be discovered on foot.

The Manhattan skyline with the Empire State seen from a window, in black and white — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Entrance to the 23 Street subway station — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

The Flatiron Building seen from its prow — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

Low-angle detail of the Flatiron Building’s façade — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

To see

^{( 01 )}Flatiron Building — one of Manhattan’s great architectural icons.

^{( 02 )}Madison Square Park — landscape and public space at the heart of the district.

^{( 03 )}Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower — one of the historic landmarks of the Madison Square skyline.

^{( 04 )}Appellate Division Courthouse — Beaux-Arts architecture facing Madison Square.

^{( 05 )}Broadway — particularly compelling where it meets Fifth Avenue diagonally and intersects with Manhattan’s grid.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower between brick buildings — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

NoMad skyscrapers in the fog, in black and white — Massimo Dutti NY Fashion Week

End in Green

Central Park — A Pause in the Grid

After iron, brick, stone, glass and asphalt, Central Park introduces trees, rock, water and expansive open space within Manhattan’s strict grid.
The skyline remains visible between the trees, but for a few hours it ceases to be the protagonist.
One final way of seeing New York: through landscape, silence and distance.