Fashion Week Parties: Night One

Fashion Week welcomed Thursday night with a variety of parties around town, celebrating young designers, animal rights and a graffiti artist.
At GQ Magazine's fourth annual Best New Menswear Designers in America competition, models sported surfwear designs by Warriors of Radness. The contest, supported by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, was in the lobby of the Ace Hotel. Other honorees included T by Alexander Wang and Gant by Michael Bastian.

Credit: Robert Caplin for The New York Times

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