NYC Fashion Week

Made it into the hostoric Broad Street Ballroom in Manhattan during New York City fashion week, on Valentine's Day, to witness the launch of EVOLI faccion, the fashion line of Jahi Fitzgerald, at Emerge!, the now annual runway show for emerging fashion designers. Jahi is the head concierge at my building in New Haven, 360StateStreet, but his heart lies with fashion  – EVOLI is "I Love" spelt backwards, as well as the first letters of the first names of his sisters. He reveals this and more in an interview taped before his show. This year fashion legend Diane von Fürstenberg had the honor of presenting the Fashion Innovator Award to André Leon Talley, former editor-at-large of American Vogue.

There were a number of photos taken after the actual show. I took a photo of Jahi standing beside two models form the show. The one on the right, Hoang Thuy, was actually the winner of Vietnam's Next Top Model tv show in 2011. She is truly striking.

I also went to the after-party that night, at "55" (see photo above). There was plenty of coverage of the runway show, with news stories online and several uploaded videos of the designers and their collections.