Playing Paparazzo Outside the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Tent at Bryant Park

Since 1993,  the big white tent in BRYANT PARK has been the home of New York FASHION WEEK. A prolonged dispute between the designers and the park management, however, makes the ongoing event (Fall 2010 Collections) the last Fashion Week show in Bryant Park. In the fall, Fashion Week will move to Lincoln Center. Yesterday, I joined the other photographers, professionals, photo enthusiasts and tourists alike in snapping photos outside the tent. For most people who were outside, fashion probably doesn't matter. Being excited to see celebrities and fashion models (even though we don't know their names), and being bemused by the outfits were enough reasons to drop by and play paparazzo.

SEX AND THE CITY New York City Hotspots

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Bryant Park

Magnolia Bakery at 11 th Street and Bleecker Street in West Village

Manolo Blahnik's Boutique on 54th Street, across from the Museum of Modern Art

Brooklyn Bridge

Bryant Park

Location of the wedding drama from the movie

The New York Public Library

With the success of the HBO series and movie SEX AND THE CITY, several New York City local favorites and well-known landmarks have become part of pop culture or favorite tourist destinations. The Sex and the City hotspots include Bryant Park (Fashion Week), the New York Public Library, 40th Street where the “you’ve humiliated me” wedding scene was filmed, Magnolia Bakery, Brooklyn Bridge, etc. Shoes by Manolo Blahnik have also stormed the gates of pop culture. For fans of Sex and the City, there is a three-and-a-half hour guided bus tour that twists and turns through the Sex and the City girls' stomping ground, visiting the restaurants where they wine and dine, the shops at the center of Carrie Bradshaw's shoe fetish, the bars they frequent, and much more. The tour is called Sex and the City Hotspots Tour.