What’s not to love about September, fashionably speaking?

Fashion Week arrives with a flurry of wonders from superstar artists like Richard Chai, Prabal Gurung, Zac Posen, and Charlotte Ronson (all also presenting at Fashion U, of course!) And afterwards, we fashion lovers look online and read the reviews and browse the pictures and swoon over the looks we covet. The looks we put on our wish list and start saving up for, understanding that they won’t be available for many months to come.

But this year, Fashion Week featured a special presentation of the most amazing looks on the racks RIGHT NOW. Anna Wintour’s brainchild, Fashion’s Night Out, kicked off with a fabulous show of 250 models wearing the best of the current collections. The seemingly never-ending parade of models filed around Lincoln Center in the largest catwalk New York has ever seen.

A grand entrance at its very finest, a double decker bus of supermodels pulled up Columbus Avenue, and the famous faces piled off glamorizing the Fashion’s Night Out specially designed t-shirts. Check out the video below to see for yourself how magical this moment was in fashion history.

Fashion’s Night Out, the annual event just in its second year, took place September 10 and was executed in over 50 US cities and 16 countries. For this one night only, more than 1000 stores stayed open late to feature celebrity appearances and special events and performances. The fun and the famous made the night a phenomenon in the industry: a karaoke contest with the Olsen twins, a Shake Shack BBQ with Tory Burch, and a poker tournament won by Kate Walsh at Valentino, to mention just a few of the spectacles of that September night.

It’s an event like no other, inspired by Nuit Blanche, the White Night of Paris—an annual all night art festival when museums and galleries open themselves to the public free of charge, with performances and special installations in a celebration of the city’s culture. And so New York City tackled our own celebration of art, the art we wear, designed by the artists we can’t wait to meet—and that opportunity, of course, is what Fashion U allows us!

Fashion’s Night Out is an exciting endeavor to spark city shopping, turning it into a nightlife outing of its own. And let’s be honest, when the night includes such sensations as Nicole Richie singing Spice Girls in Bergdorfs and a rocker chic flash mob in the Juicy store, who wouldn’t want to be a part of it?

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