LOS ANGELES — For 4 days Hollywood, California, was abuzz with crowds lining as much as see the varied L.A. Fashion Week shows organized by a latest owner in a latest location.

Lines stretched down the sidewalk on Sunset Boulevard outside the Lighthouse ArtSpace, where an immersive art show featuring works of Vincent Van Gogh and a show on King Tut had taken place until they were temporarily suspended for the style event.

A couple of blocks away, talks and panel discussions were organized within the historic Citizen News constructing, which houses event spaces and the hip latest Mother Wolf restaurant.

Everyone was holding their breath to see how a reconfigured L.A. Fashion Week, now under the ownership of N4XT Experiences, would end up for its Oct. 6 to 9 run. By most accounts, it was a hit.

Attendees were particularly taken with the brand new venue that had a big, cavernous room where images might be projected on the wall showing starry nights or fireworks marking the tip of a show.

Models walked down the concrete floor lined with long white benches where fashion followers viewed the creations from brands including AnOnlyChild, Gypsy Sport, Attachments, Revice Denim and Sami Miro Vintage.

On average the shows began about 35 to 45 minutes late with a specific amount of chaos within the air as fashiongoers wondered once they can be seated. Show organizers said the late start times were on account of a bigger crowd showing up than expected.

One attendee, who asked to not be named, believed the shows weren’t as organized as previous L.A. Fashion Weeks but liked the brand new location. She thought the brand new owners were doing well considering this was their first event. “I chalk it as much as being latest,” she said.

Many fashion followers were pleased with the Hollywood location and the variability of events organized around L.A. Fashion Week.

Those events included a number of panels, fireside chats and master classes talking about various fashion and beauty-related subjects, including how digital closets encourage sustainability and a panel on the longer term of beauty.

Danielle Lauder, the great-granddaughter of Estée Lauder and a beauty adviser to N4XT Experiences, moderated a “Live Art Meets Luxury” talk with Donald Robertson, an artist who can also be senior vp and artistic director for the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc.

Robertson drew smudged images of models on a big canvas while answering questions from Lauder about his artistic process and being a creative disruptor.

He recalled that while working with the cosmetics line Smashbox, he marketed the brand by having the corporate buy an unlimited ’60s-era white Cadillac convertible. He had red lips painted throughout it and parked it near the Art Basel show in Miami Beach, Florida, to generate buzz and a focus for the cosmetics company, which is now an Estée Lauder subsidiary.

“Miley Cyrus crawled on the highest of it, after which it ended up in People magazine,” Robertson recalled. “I really like stuff like that.”

It was those experiences that pleased fashion-show attendees like Amanda Stinson. “I liked this fashion week higher than the one in April,” she said. “Before, there was not that much to do, however the panels were thought frightening.”

The shows were also inclusive of assorted communities. Rio Uribe, the designer and founding father of Gypsy Sport, created an edgy, gender-bending show with male models wearing dresses, zaftig female models wearing skimpy dresses and Zoot suit-like creations that reminded the L.A. designer of his Latino roots.

“We’re all about celebrating community. In Los Angeles, there’s a lot Latino and queer community, and I just wanted to provide them a probability,” said the designer, who moved his company back to Los Angeles from Latest York in 2019 and has shown at Latest York Fashion Week and showed last 12 months during L.A. Fashion Week held on the Petersen Automotive Museum.

His collection included numerous sequins seen in minidresses and miniskirts with matching skimpy tops. Plaid was also a well-liked fabric utilized in dresses with lace trim and pleated and billowy skirts. Spaghetti-strapped dresses with a lingerie look were also popular.

Uribe said this L.A. Fashion Week felt different from others. He said there was more buzz about it. “Perhaps it’s the venue, but I felt more people were talking about it,” he said.

He was amazed when he was standing in line at a Koreatown post office in Los Angeles and heard someone talking concerning the show and asking about getting tickets. “I used to be like, oh my God, that’s amazing,” he said.

L.A. Fashion Week was also the event where Moss Adams LLP selected to present its annual MAFI Award to at least one outstanding L.A. designer who epitomizes innovation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the award had been on hiatus since 2019.

The award was given to Revice Denim for its sustainability efforts using deadstock, upcycled and organic cotton fabrics, its commitment to diversity within the workplace and domestic production done primarily in downtown Los Angeles. “They produce beautiful vintage, iconic pieces, use sustainable fabrics and have a giant commitment to a various workforce, which checked all of the boxes for us,” said Martin Hughes, the apparel national practice leader for Moss Adams, a world accounting and consulting firm.

Shai Sudry, the founding father of Revice Denim, said his company takes its inspiration from Los Angeles. His spring 2023 collection centered around Hollywood movies over the ages. “The concept for the show was a Hollywood revival incorporating six different movie genres,” he said.

The gathering, shown on Saturday, encompassed patchwork jumpsuits, matching sets, low-rise denim silhouettes, baggie jeans, mini shorts, dresses, micro tops and vegan leather pants and tops.

The array of shows left fashion goers pleased that L.A. Fashion Week was back within the swing of things after an on-again-off-again period on account of the pandemic. “I felt these were real shows,” said Mitch Ramey, who attended the Gypsy Sport show. “I hope they make something of it.”