Fast FW Facts

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week by the Numbers

• It takes 10 days for more than 400 people to set up the Bryant Park tents. During Fashion Week, an 80-person house crew, as well as 75 security personnel, oversee the event. All in all, over 500 volunteers will donate 4,000 hours of their time.
• There will be around 100,000 attendees, including 3,500 from the press. More than 2,500 different looks will be shown.
• The average runway show lasts 17 minutes, although waiting time can be much longer. Last fall, spectators waited two hours for the Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer show.
• Up-and-coming stylists usually charge designers around $6,000/day. Well-known stylists: $20,000/day.
• Prior to Fashion Week, M•A•C Cosmetics receives orders for at least 20,000 eyeshadows. During the event, the M•A•C PRO team goes through approximately 340 tubes of lipstick.
• Within the eight-acre Bryant Park, the venues can range up to 12,000 square feet in size.
• During Fashion Week, there will be 78 designer runway shows.
• Approximately 72,000 bottles of Evian, 4,000 bottles of Peroni, and 1,500 bottles of Imperia Vodka will be consumed on site.
• There will be 5,000 newly designed OfficeMax notebooks for front-row note-taking.