Fashion Week Gets Political

Strange bedfellows and strident calls for change are de rigueur in the fashion world and so what better theme for this election year installment of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week than “Vote Fashion/Fashion Wins,” conveyed in a flurry of campaign buttons? “Our seasonal graphics will hopefully remind all elgible voters to vote in our upcoming Presidential election,” writes IMG Fashion’s Fern Mallis in her welcome letter to attendees. “We also encourage you to ‘vote fashion’ with your pens and cameras.