Lipstick Jungle

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SEPTEMBER IS GLORIOUS IN MANHATTAN, AND THIS year was no exception. The temperature was a perfect viity-?ve degrees, the humidity low, and the sky a cloudless blue. approach back to the city from a restless summer, the weather is ceaselessly a reminder that spectacular things can happen and that magnificence is just around the corner. The air buzzes with excitement, and in mavin day, the city goes from sleepy to frenzied. Theres the familiar crawl of traf?c on one- sextetth and Park Avenues, the air hums with cell remember conversations, and the restaurants are full. For the rest of the country, Labor Day marks the fetch up of the summer and the beginning of the school year. But in newly York, the real year begins a few days later, with that aged tradition known as Fashion Week. On Sixth Avenue behind the Public Library, Bryant Park was transformed into a wonderland of white tents where dozens of fashion shows would take place. Black carpet stairs led up to French doors, and all week, these steps were lined with students and fans hoping to get a glimpse of their favorite designers or stars, with Japanese photographers (whom everyone agreed were more polite), with paparazzi, with security men with headsets and walkietalkies, with the youthful P.R.



girls (always in black, sporting concerned expressions), and with all manner of favorable attendees shouting into cell phones for their cars. The curb was lined with black township cars three vehicles deep, as if some terribly important differentiate funeral were about to take place. But inside the tents, life was at its most glamorous and exciting. There were always ?ve or hexad big shows at which attendance was required to secure ones place in the social pecking order (or to evidently remind everyone that you still exist), and the very ?rst of these events was the Victory Ford

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show, held at seven p.m. on the ?rst Thursday evening of Fashion Week. By six forty-?ve, the scene inside the tents was one of controlled...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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