I am glad to say New York Fashion Week, September 2023 was back in full force, I got so many invites to almost every show one can think of and was humanely impossible to attend each and every show. It reminded me of my early days, before COVID-19. We have been covering NYFW for 20 years.
Below you will see some of the Fashion shows, Fashion Presentations, Private VIP Parties and exclusive interviews with Designers, models and much more. we attended, during New York Fashion Week 2023.
Harlem Fashion Row Style Awards & Fashion Show & VIP Party -2023 at the Iconic Apollo Theatre in the Heart of Harlem: Harlem’s Fashion Row Celebrated Its 16th Annual Style Awards and Runway Show, Harlem Fashion Row—the organization founded by Brandice Daniel.
Devoted to uplifting and supporting Black and Latinx talent in fashion which included the following honoree’s: On stage, awards were collected by rapper A$AP Rocky, singer Kelly Rowland, stylists Wayman + Micah, photographer Johnny Nuñez, editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, and designer Stella Jean.
Nicole Benefield Portfolio, A. Potts, and Megan Renee all showed new collections on the catwalk, too.
Lastly, rapper A$AP Rocky Father of Rihanna’s 2 Boys.
Collected the Virgil Abloh Award presented by LVMH, and he spoke of his personal relationship with the late designer. “Virgil discovered us, [the A$AP Mob crew], before I got my record deal. Virgil went on to design my first album cover and first tour.”
The Walt Disney Company, LVMH, and AT&T, among others, as sponsors. 50th anniversary of hip-hop, and aimed to celebrate the Black creatives who are shaping the current fashion landscape with their unique work.
I am honored to call Brandice Daniel founder of Harlem Fashion Row, a friend first of all and a brilliant woman who assembled a great time to give people of color an opportunity in the fashion world and sectors and at the same time give them a seat at the table.
It was our 6th Show covering Harlem Fashion Row, Panels, VIP Events, Styling awards, High level Fashion events, and showcasing some of the biggest names in the world who are people of Color.
Dapper Don Legendary Fashion Designer and Icon in Harlem and the Fashion Industry said, it best that evening. If it was not for our people we would not be around, today. To See Harlem Fashion Row, Fashion Show, Style awards Show Red Carpet events and VIP Party in our World Liberty TV, Fashion Blogs by Clicking here.
Emerge Fashion Show Awards Presentation and VIP Party 2023: Emerge! A Fashion Runway Show is the top emerging designer collective during New York Fashion Week and is a catalyst for providing a platform and a strong backdrop for emerging designers.
Top emerging designers from across the globe participate in the highly anticipated show each year during February and September fashion week in an effort to connect up-and-coming designers with potential buyers and fashion industry power players.
This spectacular event discovers designers from across the world and provides them with a lifetime opportunity. Emerge! is one of the most anticipated shows during the season and is produced by D. Williams Public Relations Group.
Emerge! ensures that the best and brightest designers who are still fighting to get their foot in the door have a fair shot at getting their collection showcased.
“I created EMERGE! 12 years ago to provide a national and global runway for talented designers everywhere,” states EMERGE! Creator and Producer Dionne Williams, of D. Williams Public Relations Group. “It’s my mission for EMERGE! to be a catalyst and resource for designers.”
Amid the glitz and glam of the high-energy production, this year’s EMERGE! Fashion Runway Show will also present the Fashion Trailblazer Award to two fashion industry leaders. Legendary Designer & Urban Fashion Pioneer April Walker of Walker Wear, Luxury Women’s Wear Designer Sergio Hudson and the legendary Dapper Dan.
This coveted honor recognizes the trailblazing work, creativity and contributions of a leading designer in the industry positively laying the pathway for upcoming designers & creatives.
We at World Liberty TV, have been covering Emerge Fashion Week for close to 7 years, it’s a great show all put together by EMERGE! Creator and Producer Dionne Williams, of D. Williams Public Relations Group and her team.
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Hi-Tech Moda Fashion Shows-2023 : The Event featured top emerging and established designers and boutiques from around the world, showcasing a unique blend of hi-tech and sustainable fashion. The day will be filled with various shows from designers like Kat Couture, Nita Belle’s Closet, Archie Brown, Elizabeth Cordela, and Eiffel Bleu, among others.
In addition to the fashion shows, there was a special presentation by Indigenous Designers: Ally’s Ribbons by Alyssia Sutherland and VIVIDUS RUNWAY by Tierra alyssia. This event is not just about fashion, it’s about celebrating diversity and creativity. Said its founder and Executive Producer Hi-Tech Moda, Ms. Pamela Privette.
World Liberty TV, Fashion Team has been covering Hi-Tech Moda Fashion Shows for the past 4 years. Click here to See Hi-Tech Moda Fashion Show Coverage, in our World Liberty TV Fashion Blogs.
Small Boutique Fashion Week Show -2023: The industry’s most powerful event for indie brands voted by CBS & Forbes.com will be celebrating Season #22 of Small Boutique Fashion Week in the biggest way possible.
Small Boutique Fashion Week NYC Fashion Week will take place Saturday September 10th & will feature over 50+ brands debuting their collections during our award winning fashion shows and vendor market.
SBFW Was Created in 2012 to Provide Emerging Designers with an Upscale Platform to display their work…
Hosting over 3000+ fashion brands over the past 10 years and 15 states, Small Boutique Fashion Week has been providing a safe space for indie design community for almost a decade. SBFW has been featured in notable publications such as Fox Business Network, Forbes & Upscale Magazine and has been listed as the number fashion event for indie brands votes by CBS.
Many of our participants have gone on to style celebrities, sell to boutiques and stores and even compete on Project Runway.
World Liberty TV, Fashion Team has been covering the Small Boutique Fashion Week for the past 8 years.
To learn more about more about Small Boutique Fashion Week and its shows taking place throughout the world, To See Small Boutique Fashion Show 2023, in our World Liberty TV, Fashion Channels click here.
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By Adal Hussain, Chief Editor Mount Sinai Hospital Jan 10th 2023.
Thousands of nurses went on strike Monday at two of New York City’s major hospitals after contract negotiations stalled over staffing and salaries nearly three years into the coronavirus pandemic.
The privately owned hospitals were postponing nonemergency surgeries, diverting ambulances to other medical centers, pulling in temporary staffers, and assigning administrators with nursing backgrounds to work in wards in order to cope with the walkout.
As many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and about 3,600 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan were off the job. Hundreds picketed, some singing the chorus from Twisted Sister’s 1984 hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” outside Mount Sinai. It was one of many New York hospitals deluged with Covid-19 patients as the virus made the city an epicenter of deaths in spring 2020.
“We were heroes only two years ago,” said Warren Urquhart, a nurse in transplant and oncology units. “We was on the front lines of the city when everything came to a stop. And now we need to come to a stop so they can understand how much we mean to this hospital and to the patients.”
“Enough is enough, Sinai,” New York State Nurses Association President Nancy Hagan said outside of Mount Sinai on Monday surrounded by red-clad nurses. “What we are asking for is for safe staffing and quality care for patients. We don’t think we are asking for too much.”
The hospitals said in separate statements on Monday that they offered a 19.1% compounded wage increase to the nurses. Montefiore Medical Center also said it was committed to create over 170 new nursing positions.
With the traumas of COVID still freshly seared into their minds, New York City nurses are once again sounding the alarm that staffing shortages at local hospitals are jeopardizing the well-being of themselves and their patients.
Nurses in the Big Apple and throughout New York State are planning a series of protests starting this week to highlight what they say is a failure on the part of hospitals to staff jobs that started to become vacant after the first pandemic wave roared through the region.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Sunday that he and his staff were closely monitoring the situation and that the city’s healthcare system is prepared to meet any challenges that may arise due to the work stoppage.
Union officials appeared to be winning the public relations battle in this fight, with cars and trucks honking their horns in support of the strikers throughout the day. And the union officials were getting overwhelming cheers from crowd as well with their position that they were fighting to put patients over profits.
Let’s hope all parties get together as soon as possible and iron out the details and everybody is happy with the situation, as nurses are very important part of our health system and with the COVID Raging full force we need to have them back at work, right away.
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We had the pleasure of covering close to 100 designers from all over the World. At New York Fashion Shows Fall / Winter 2022. Below are some of the fashion Shows we covered and showcased in our World Liberty TV, Fashion Channels, Blogs and Photo-Galleries.
Adrian Alicea: The Adrian Alicea brand represents an orgy of defiance. Absolution without the fear of retribution. The temerity of Adrian Alicea is only surpassed by the precise execution of his vision.
Adrian Alicea is a new romantic of romantic excesses. Creating a pirate-like fairy-tale of disguises, he walks a tightrope between ironic hedonistic inclination and highly serious commentary. There is an insane carcinogenic, merciless narcissism. There is a deafening, endless shout
of “gimme more!” – Earl Murray. Adrian’s inspiration comes from his strong familial roots in Puerto Rico. The essence of his beautiful mother is etched into every design. Mr. Alicea was also blessed with nine sisters of whom have provided him with the depth of understanding the female form. The fact that he also has real human frailties make him greater than is realized by those who are not able to see through the fog of adulation. His human experience transcends into an emotional confluence felt by every being that adorns his designs. Having been a model himself, he was first discovered at the iconic nightclub “The Tunnel” by Rae Dawn Chong who invited him to walk for Thierry Mugler’s couture show in Paris.
From there his career took off and with persistent effort continued working with the masters of Europe: Hermes, Giorgio Armani, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gianfranco Ferre, Vivienne Westwood, and Patricia Fields and graced the stage with notable supermodels Iman, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Debra Shaw, Veruschka von Lehndorff, to name a few. Adrian Alicea has also been featured on the cover of Italian Vogue and has had editorial spreads in major publications like Vibe. He’d eventually tour the world as a professional dancer alongside the legendary Willi Ninja and Grace Jones. This led to two electrifying performances in “Deep in Vogue” and “Waltz Darling” by the multi-talented Malcolm McClaren. He is currently featured in the CAMP Expedition at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Manhattan, New York and was presented with the Emerging New Designer Award at the Cinema Film Fashion Awards 2017, Beverly Hills, California alongside Akon, Sidney Poitier and Samuel L. Jackson. Adrian has styled and dressed the likes of many A List celebrities. Larisa Martine, of whom shared the stage with Grammy Award Winner, Joshua Bell at the 60th Lincoln Center Anniversary hosted by Neil Patrick Harris wore one of his stunning designs. He has also dressed and styled celebrities like Zoe Saldana and Nick Cannon.
The House Of Alicea was born out of his life-time love affair with Avant-garde fashion and the purest freedom of an artist. Adrian sews from hand like a sculptor as he shapes and molds each fabric to fit the human form with such care to the ornate details he creates in each design. The fashion industry has become commercial and lackluster at best with mass-produced designs. Adrian Alicea has a style all his own that is unique and filled with the power to transform this industry back to a time when living breathing artistic beauty of all forms graced the stage. His designs bring forth an explosive amalgamation of emotions that will take your breath away and leaving you screaming for more. Adrian Alicea is that of a demigod. This mythical creature has the innate ability to forge a cult-like dance of the obscure bathed in overt obscenity, and emblazoned in provocative aggression dripping in hedonistic ecstasy. See his fashion Show in our World Liberty TV, Fashion Channel by Clicking here.
Emerge Fashion Show During NYFW -2022: I am truly grateful to present the Emerge! Fashion live runway show during New York Fashion Week! When I created Emerge! 10 years ago my purpose was to highlight the creativity and art that designers create for the runway. I am always at awe at the talent and gifts that designers bring to light. I am equally grateful about honoring legendary designer Karl Kani with the Fashion Innovator Award. Universally- deemed the Godfather of Urban Fashion, Karl Kani’s style and influence impacted the culture in a major way with his iconic brand.
Last but not least, thanks to everyone for supporting the show and I am honored you are here to enjoy this journey! On behalf of our talented designers, production staff and all of our sponsors, I welcome you to witness Emerge! A Fashion Runway Show., Said, Dionne Williams Creator, Emerge! See Emerge Fashion Show as well as Karl Kani God Father of Urban Fashion being honored as well as a special tribute video honoring Andre Talley. In our World Liberty TV, Fashion Channels by Clicking here.
“NYC Live! @ Fashion Week” Fall/Winter 2022 Fashion Showcase, Creative Director and Founder “Michael Reid”: Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Wm. Michael Reid has always expressed a desire to become a world-renowned architect. It was once imagined that he would have an impact on his hometown’s world-famous skyline by designing a magnificent office tower or, better yet, a sports and entertainment complex. However, after attending college in Los Angeles, he shifted into a different gear, which helped him focus on designing and building a first-class company.
Over time, X.E.I. has developed solid relationships with many influential personnel all across the nation – entertainment industry, sports leagues, travel/hospitality, corporate sponsors, modeling, fashion, and the media — radio, television, film, print and interactive. In years to come, it’s X.E.I.’s goal to leave its mark as one of the most highly-successful entertainment companies ever to be assembled. One thing’s for certain, X.E.I. will provide a creative and informative platform for new business clients, as well as family and friends. See NY Live Fashion Shows by clicking here.
We at World Liberty TV, have been covering New York Fashion Week for close to 20 years and showcasing thousands of designers from all over the World, as well as models and people in the fashion world. See More in our World Liberty TV, Fashion Channels blogs and Fashion Photo-Galleries by clicking here.
