Today’s history lesson: The origins of Fashion Week.

HuffingtonPost.com has a short article on the origins of “Press Week” (now known as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week) in New York. SPOILER ALERT: It was started by a PR rep.

Eleanor Lambert in 1963, AP photo

Invitations to designer shows during New York Fashion Week are harder to come by than smiles on the catwalk. There was once a time, though — long before models perfected their “I’m too cool for the world” pouts — when you couldn’t pay people to show up for this biannual orgy of style.

Read the story here: “Eleanor Of Seventh Avenue: Where Fashion Week Came From ”

Don’t forget, we’ll be at the…um…er…”biannual orgy of style.” Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week: We’ll be there.

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