Fifty years ago, a part of Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue became Fashion Avenue.
On Sept. 23, 1972, the portion of Seventh Avenue between twenty sixth and forty second Streets within the Garment District, got here to be known for all that was bringing it to life: fashion.
Though the subtitled Fashion Avenue moniker was intended to be temporary at first — it was a part of a campaign to revitalize Recent York as a worldwide fashion city — the name stuck and has since remained synonymous with American fashion.
On the time, the renaming campaign was spearheaded by the Fashion Capital of the World Inc., a gaggle formed a 12 months earlier and comprised of a board of fifty influential business leaders, most hailing...
Continue reading
0 Comments
