Gothamist: Skating or Style at Bryant Park

Dough

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:50:08 -0500

amazing!!! who cares about fashion except Sex in the City wannabes. OOOh, look at that dress, it's only 5 grand, worth every penny. I can't stand fashion shows or the morons who sit there and oooh and aaah at weird clothing, then stand up and clap for some other moron who reinvented a style that was popular 20 years ago. Keep the free rink, there is much more exposure for the park that way. And as for Anne Wintour, fashion doesn't garner anything quite rightly you shallow self-centered idiot.

Samantha T

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:57:06 -0500

"Since the fashion shows are essentially indoor activites, it seems ridiculous to dedicate one of New York's few outdoor spaces to them." This is the most logical argument on this thread. You can toss the fashion show anywhere, but you can't do the same with an ice rink. I can't believe how up in arms people get about haute couture. Seriously, who gives a shit?

Jonathan

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:20:03 -0500

I understand the point about the difference between public and private events. Perhaps I was a little hasty. But I would still like to point out that Fashion Week also does not take up 100% of the park. In fact, it takes up about as much space as the ice rink.

Marc

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:22:50 -0500

"Sodomites"? You should be embarassed of yourself.

Sternel

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:40:39 -0500

Jonathan: Nice try, but you cited nothing but public and non-profit events. Last time I checked, the fashion industry wasn't exactly what one would call non-profit. I have no problem with public, accessible events. Fashion Week is not one of them.

da goodfatter

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:27:35 -0500

Yes, I remember and the stories are all exaggerated.

Never Forget

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:10:20 -0500

Can everybody take a deep breath and remember what Bryant Park used to be like just a few short years back? That people would even have this argument was unthinkable back then. How wonderful is that?. And I'll take a clean park, fashion week, summmer movies AND a skating rink over the way it used to be any day of the week (and really, they can fit them all in and still leave some time for the office folk to eat lunch). And FYI Kevin, I think some of the shows this year, i.e. Marc Jacobs, were at the Armory...

nice hyperbole jackass

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:27:22 -0500

Right Jonathan, because the Opera and Philharmonic in Central Park take up 100% of the park. Idiot.

Matthew

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:14:45 -0500

Since the fashion shows are essentially indoor activites, it seems ridiculous to dedicate one of New York's few outdoor spaces to them.

Kevin Walsh

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:27:07 -0500

Put 'em in the 7th Regiment Armory on Park Avenue...it's huge, just think of how many skinny models you can jam in there. www.forgotten-ny.com

Jonathan

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:05:05 -0500

If we're going to start blaming Fashion Week for taking up space and disrupting our comings-and-goings, what's going to be next? All those parades on Fifth and Sixth? Street fairs? The Met in Central Park? Free concerts in Prospect Park? If we don't allow Fashion Week to take up Bryant Park for two weeks a year (fashion people are skinny, just squeeze around them), isn't it only fair that we get rid of all the other things that make our city so unique?

turn to the left

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:01:46 -0500

F*UK Fashion, I hope they all die from lung cancer and drug OD's. Is that bigoted enough for you?

whatever

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:46:21 -0500

As if the "non-Americans" you speak of do much travel beyond New York. Just like most of the idiotic commentary on Gothamist comes from people who haven't ventured beyond Paris and London and yet think all Europeans are hyper-educated sophisticates.

I <3 Fashion Week

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:46:03 -0500

I vote for the hot models in Bryant Park over a bunch of ice skaters.

David S.

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:22:24 -0500

Fashion week is part of NYC. Get used to it. Too bad. It makes NYC one of the great cities of the world (and one of the few places in the US that non-Americans still like). If you're so closed minded that everything in NYC should revolve around you and what you want, then you should probably leave and go live in isolation. NYC is not YOUR city, it's EVERYONE'S city. Share it. I'm shocked how self-centered and bigoted (sodomites?) some of these comments are. It's not something I would expect from New Yorkers, though I do like the idea of Fashion Week on Ice. Now that's all in good fun! For the record, I'm not in fashion, if that's what you were thinking. So there! phhhhhtttttt!

in the know

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:16:02 -0500

Anonymass, London is the true center of the financial world.

5w30

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:31:45 -0500

How about the Theater at Madison Sq Garden? Or even the Garden itself? Truly fashion on ice!

Pissed-Off Michelle Darmore

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:30:30 -0500

No ice ring, no fashion week. Why can't the park be a park, as it was designed? If you don't skate but do use the park regularly, the rink is as disruptive as Fashion Week is, so if the choice is one or the other, it's really all the same to me. There are precious few weeks of the year now that the park isn't monopolized by an ugly giant commercial venture!

JN

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:15:41 -0500

Kern, brilliant comment, although I think there could be some Zoolanderesque freak model deaths as these "skinny waifs" fall on the ice. On a seperate note, does anybody find it hilarious when models fall on the runway, considering that is all they are paid to do?

anonymass

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:57:36 -0500

New York *is* the capital of finance. I don't know from where you're getting your 'facts,' but I'd find a new source.

j

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:27:34 -0500

the ice ring wins by a landslide. The fashion is just gaudy shit designed by elitist sodomites who don't even dress like that in real life. You ever notice the designers look they shop at banana republic or urban outfitters? The models are all underfed skinny waifs coked out of their minds and everyone always says their line is "sexy" and "provacative" and "trend setting" when it's all the same year after year and you couldn't even tell. Fashion is for sheep.

Kern

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:01:33 -0500

What about "Fashion Week on Ice"?

slipping

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:46:59 -0500

New York is NOT the capital of fashion. It's not even the capital of finance.

Sternel

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:33:06 -0500

I'd love to see Anna Wintour on a pair of ice skates. Bitch, please. Y'all have enough money, find a new venue yourself and stop clogging up public space for private enterprise.

Tim N.

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:44:55 -0500

Fashion is self-promition masquerading as art. Keep the rink. As for a big open space, I hear Jersey is nice.

pugsley

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:30:50 -0500

fashion beats ice skating

bklynd

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:17:41 -0500

Well, the ice rink is not that good, IMO.

RobK

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:16:06 -0500

If you really want to try something fun, grab a hot cocoa and sit in the park to watch the comings and goings. The seats remain open to the public, and while it may be cold, the show is totaly worth it. NYC needs the tents in Bryant Park.

kwanito

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:15:45 -0500

Last year, I went to The Pond @ Bryant Park several times a week. I'd be slightly miffed if the ice skating season were cut short there for Fashion Week. I suspect Fashion Week events would generate more revenue than The Pond. Is this why Bloomberg would side with Anna Wintour & the fashion world? I certainly hope not.

jauntyjoker

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:10:05 -0500

Find another space, hoity space hogs. Ice rink please.

em

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:08:05 -0500

I, for one, do not think New York needs any more "exposure". And that particular street corner, probably one of the busiest in the entire world, does not need any more traffic, foot- or otherwise. Stick 'em in the Javits.

andrewz

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:50:24 -0500

This really comes down to seeing NYC parks as issues of the "commons" where a piece land is divided amongst the public, but where one entity begins taking too much space for itself. The same issue can be said about NYU's religious takeover of Washington Square Park for it's Graduation Ceremony. Regardless, although I appreciate Fashion Week, they really must find themselves a new venue. By taking over Bryant Park, they do the public less of a service than it believes itself doing. I have to walk across Bryant Park's main entrance to get to classes and it's truly a hassle to have to literally force a path through Fashion Week patrons crowding the ENTIRE sidewalk.

nycjim

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:35:51 -0500

For a couple of weeks, a couple of times a year, we should be grateful for the exposure and the continued choice of nyc as the fashion center of the world. get over yourselves.

Hater

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:29:54 -0500

I live three blocks from Bryant Park and despise Fashion Week. Tons of bitches and meatheads stomping around all week with their foul couture and massive egos. Don't view me as sacreligious but I think I'd actually take tourists over them. I'll take the ice rink, please.