Greater Kaohsiung is prepared to roll out the red carpet for models and celebrities as the city joins Vogue magazine’s annual Fashion’s Night Out for the first time next month.
Starting at 6pm on Sept. 15, the one-night fashion celebration — a shopping extravaganza initiated by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour — will open at the Kaohsiung MRT Central Park Station, where celebrities and hundreds of models are due to arrive in style in a “fashion carriage” for an outdoor runway show, event organizers said.
Chipping in for the celebration, the Greater Kaohsiung Government’s Economic Development Bureau and the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp (KRTC) have poured in about NT$1 million (US$30,000) to transform three carriages into “fashion carriages,” complete with red carpets for models to stage the first runway show of its kind in the nation.
Photo: Chang Chung-yi, Taipei Times
The show will be followed by a boating party at the city’s Fisherman’s Wharf (漁人碼頭), with celebrities and models setting sail with the public to create a new fashion experience in the harbor city.
A number of popular celebrities are also scheduled to make an appearance at various department stores across the city during the afternoon of Sept. 15, serving as “one-day store managers” accompanying customers on shopping sprees.
Economic Development Bureau chief Lan Chien-chang (藍健菖) and KRTC secretary-general Hao Chien-sheng (郝建生) said the local fashion industry had usually overlooked southern Taiwan in favor of the north.
“For the first time in the nation’s history, the Vogue Fashion’s Night Out will be staged in both Taipei and Kaohsiung,” they said.
“While the former [in Taipei] will be launched one week ahead of the latter, the carriage runway show [in Kaohsiung] will be the first of its kind in the nation’s history and will surely boost the city’s profile in the international fashion industry,” they said.
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