Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week New York

New York Fashion Week has a long history behind it with the first New York Fashion being held in 1943. It鈥檚 original purpose was more a political objective rather than a fashion objective. In 1994 the event was moved to where it currently is held today, Bryant Park, in a series of large white tents that were placed all over the park. Admission ended up being very difficult to obtain and most admissions were by invitation only to the fashion industry, press, celebrities, and other designers. The New York Fashion Week in 2009 got a taste of the bad economy when many designers decided to not set up full runways in Bryant Park, but to do smaller presentations that saved time and money. However, time became less of an issue starting with 2009 due to new technologies which allowed designers to showcase their designs all over the world using the internet and new iPhone apps and digital media.

None. Some models in the Vivienne fashion show even walked carrying mini notebook computers instead of a fancy clutch or a pop-out handbag. In late 2009, Bryant Park management pressured the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week to be held in Damrosch Park at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The semi-annual New York Fashion Week is held in February and September of each year in New York City. It ends up being one of the top four fashion weeks held around the world, with the other top three being held in Paris, Milan, and London. The fashion show claims itself to be New York's, "single largest media event" that happens twice a year. The winter collection is presented in February and the spring collections are presented in September. Around 80 designer shows happen over the course of 8 days in the respective months and about 100,000 fashion industry insiders attend the event making the fashion show a prime opportunity to exchange ideas and compete for business. Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. 0 of 8192 characters usedPost CommentNo HTML is allowed in comments, but URLs will be hyperlinked. Comments are not for promoting your articles or other sites. Sounds interesting - Thanks for this. Also, it was nice of you to include all the dates.

30,000 (before the mandatory destination charge) in 2013. The A-Class rides on the MFA 2 platform, the second generation of the Mercedes Front-drive Architecture adapted from the CLA鈥檚 underpinnings. It鈥檚 an evolution of the same platform, with a new central underbody and 30-percent stiffer mounting points for the chassis components. The latter allowed for softer spring and damper settings to retain the CLA鈥檚 sportiness and ease up on the kidney liquification. I take the wheel under a tunnel of trees just outside the entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. The steering immediately presents as weighty and direct with rock-steady on-center stability. I鈥檓 in a particularly attractive version of the A-Class that boasts optional 19-inch wheels and the AMG Line package, which adds AMG body styling, a chrome-finish diamond-block grille, perforated front brake discs, and a suspension that is lowered 0.6 inch. The A-Class offers 17- or 18-inch wheels as well, so this should be the stiffest riding model, but the ride feels more planted and supple than rigid. The road here undulates and the A-Class responds with some bounding, especially from the rear. That鈥檚 likely more due to the short 107.4-inch wheelbase than stiff suspension tuning.

I leave the park and enter the Yakima Valley, where farms and apple orchards dot the open land. Here, the A-Class proves fun to toss into the occasional sharp corner. The steering is quick enough with its 14.4:1 ratio to turn in crisply, and the car suffers from little body lean. I find no esses here, but the short wheelbase and minimal lean should make the A-Class quite agile. I鈥檓 looking forward to the AMG A35 and A45 models that are likely to follow. While those numbers are down by 20 and 37, respectively, from the 2.0-liter turbo-4 in the CLA250, this spirited engine launches the car from 0-60 mph in an estimated 7.0 seconds, and has plenty in reserve for highway passing. The 7-speed shifts responsively, and between the engine and transmission, the A-Class doesn鈥檛 suffer the occasional pause in power delivery that you can experience in the CLA250.

With the launch of the A-Class, Mercedes is also introducing its MBUX infotainment system. It features two dashboard screens set next to each other under a single pane of glass. Mercedes makes 7.0-inch screens standard, and offers 10.25-inch screens as an option. With either setup, the right screen is a touchscreen鈥攁 first for Mercedes. Powered by the latest graphics chip, MBUX uses artificial intelligence to learn the preferences and patterns of the driver, and uses both onboard and cloud-connected data to respond to commands and requests. My first experience with the system is generally positive, and even when it鈥檚 negative it鈥檚 positive. More on that in a bit. In addition to that touchscreen, MBUX can be controlled through steering wheel controls like other current Mercedes systems, via an enlarged trackpad with haptic feedback (the rotary dial is gone), or by natural speech recognition. The driver doesn鈥檛 have to learn what specific commands MBUX will accept.