FASHION WEEK GRINDS TO HALT.(after terrorist attacks)(Brief Article)

Footwear News, September, 2001 by Czarra, Kerstin; Daily, with additional reporting from Women's Wear

In the wake of the devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. last Tuesday, organizers of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week cancelled the spring 2002 runway shows. On Tuesday, Sept. 11 at approximately 10 a.m., Fern Mallis, vice president and executive director of 7th on Sixth, who was attending the Douglas Hannant show, stepped onto the runway prior to the start of the event and asked the attendees to leave the tents in an orderly fashion. "The World Trade Center has just collapsed," she said. "The Pentagon has been hit. It is inappropriate to be having a fashion show."

It was the third day of women's collections and the decision to cancel the remaining shows, which were being run by IMG for the first time this...

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