Vogue transformed New York City's Lincoln Center into a fashion mecca on Tuesday night as the biggest names in all things chic gathered to both witness and partake in the largest public fashion show in the city's history. Dressed in designers from A to Z—from Anne Taylor to Zac Posen—150 models walked through the cultural epicenter to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' "Empire State of Mind" and Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York," unofficially kicking off New York Fashion Week. And thanks to this ring-shaped runway setup, nearly everyone in attendance had a front or second row seat.
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Fresh from the Venice Film Festival, British model Naomi Campbell stomped in front of the Lincoln Center Opera House to help close out Fashion's Night Out: The Show on Tuesday night, proving two decades after her career took off that she still has it.
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Joining Campbell was Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen, who hit the catwalk in a gorgeous black, white, and gray gown with other A-list models as they circled Lincoln Center's iconic Revson Fountain.
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Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, who produces Tuesday's show, once called this Czech-born Victoria's Secret Angel the " next supermodel." The beautiful blonde walked the circular runway at Fashion's Night Out in a white-and-black belted gown.
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At the helm of the biggest fashion show New York has ever seen was, of course, Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour. The style icon made sure everything was in order for the evening's event with an early pit stop at Lincoln Center on Tuesday. But when it came time for the big show, the notoriously reserved editor was wearing a smile instead of her signature sunglasses.
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Diane von Furstenberg helped Anna Wintour conceive the Fashion's Night Out celebration as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and the designer was eager to see her hard work pay off. According to ABC News, she "had to stand from her front-row seat to get a close-up" of all of the models as they made their way around the runway.
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The Israeli model and on-again-off-again arm candy of Leonardo DiCaprio did not walk in the runway show for Fashion's Night Out, but she was on the list of attendees. Refaeli posed in a skin-tight black dress before taking her seat in Lincoln Center to see her fellow supermodels in action.
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Radiant in a geometric print neon Marchesa gown, Gossip Girl's Blake Lively sat front row between Anna Wintour and tennis star Roger Federer on Tuesday night to take in Fashion's Night Out, which also will be a plot point on her show's upcoming season. According to the New York Post, Vogue editors Hamish Bowles and Lauren Santo Domingo have filmed cameos. The 23-year-old actress stood tall in Christian Louboutin heels, as did one of her fellow co-stars.
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Blue belle of the ball Leighton Meester took a risk in this cut-out Versus dress with an equally bright pair of Christian Louboutin booties. The Gossip Girl star finished off her look with a beaded Louis Vuitton bag and Van Cleef & Arpels Estate jewels for the evening. Earlier in the day, Meester tweeted, "I'm so excited!!! Can't wait for #NYFW :D"
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Before stepping out in her tiered black, white, and gray gown, ruby-haired model Coco Rocha gave the Twitterverse a backstage look at Fashion's Night Out. "This is what 150 models getting their makeup done in an endless hallway looks like. At #FNO the show!! - http://plixi.com/p/43806913," she tweeted.
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N.E.R.D. front man Pharrell Williams brought the live music for Fashion's Night Out, first taking center stage around Lincoln Center's Revson Fountain and then following the final group of models onto a double-decker bus, where the party presumably raged on.
