About Town With Shel: Fashion Week Happens in the O!

Three years ago Fashion Night Out was hosted by Vogue and the CFDA in New York City to encourage consumers to shop and support the fashion industry. With such a HUGE success in 2009, the event, now dubbed the biggest fashion event in history, and getting bigger every year. In 2010 16 countries participated... 2011, Orlando jumped on the FNO train!

From the far east and far west Orlando fashionistas with all different style put on their favorite designer pieces and attended the “IT” event held on September 8^th 2011, and finally Orlando fashionistas were included!

Boutiques such as Chanel, Tory Burch and BCBG(among many others) participated offering their savvy shoppers glasses of champagne while they shopped the new designer fall lines. The Chanel boutique, complete with an amazing handbag I fell in love with and their promised exclusive limited edition FNO nail colors, this year three denim-inspired hues called Les Jeans de Chanel, Blue Rebel, Coco Blue and Blue Boy.

BCBG housed (along with many stores in the mall) the official FNO tee and a free miniature of the newly launched, BCBG Max Azria perfume. You know the one with the rose cap?? Mall at Millenia hosted the Pure Fashion Sweepstakes where winner would win one of 3 Millenia giftcards.

And Neimann Marcus, can just be described as a huge party while swiping your credit card! There was catered food, DJs on every floor, fashion photoshoots happening right there, live models showing off the latest fall pieces.

The following night was themed, Fashion Night in were invititation only guests . viewed a RUNWAY SHOW INCLUDING: ANTHROPOLOGIE, BCBG, BETSEY JOHNSON, BLOOMINGDALE’S, LACOSTE, MAXSTUDIO.COM complete with many more fun activiutes and of course shopping for ALL.

Fashion for all, was open seating and held in the Grand Court, RUNWAY SHOW INCLUDING: ANN TAYLOR, BANANA REPUBLIC, CACHE ED HARDY, MACY’S, QUIKSILVER AND WHITE HOUSE BLACK MARKEt and MORE shopping!!

September 11^th was the Runway to Hope event, also a ticketed event, complete with a FASHION SHOW INCLUDING: GUCCI, NEIMAN MARCUS, ST. JOHN, TORY BURCH while enjoying an amazing brunch. Celebrity Host George Kotsiopolous, co-host of Fashion Police on E! Entertainment.

To conclude this fabulous week full of fashion, fun and all for a good cause, Was the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY FASHION DEBUT, the event was open seating and held in the Grand Court. Let me just say…some up and coming designers in the making and I’m stoked!

Now that our week of fashion fun is over….we wait with baited breath the Harriett’s Park Avenue Fashion week…just weeks away!