Highlights From LG Fashion Week

Wood boards lined the runway for Laura Siegel's intimate show in the Studio. Models walked barefoot in the sustainable collection.

The Studio glowed purple for the Juma presentation. Outside passersby had a view of the small and versatile runway space.

Jay Manuel's Attitude by Sears runway show was full of drama, with flashing lights, dry ice, and a reflective runway.

Dry ice fog rolled out onto the runway during the Jay Manuel Attitude by Sears show.

Sponsor Korhani Home incorporated its rugs into its runway show, which had an Alice in Wonderland theme.

A string quartet played in the centre of Adrian Wu's runway show in the Studio.

The intimate Studio space in the tents was customizable, with optional bench seating.

Neon letters spelled out "Holts" for the opening show of Fashion Week from Holt Renfrew.

Bustle brought out a boat to backdrop its nautical-inspired runway show. Female models posed on the boat while men walked the runway.

A drummer performed on the runway during the Caroline Néron show in the Studio.

Sarah Stevenson showcased her artwork next to the dresses they inspired in the Studio.

Podiums covered in fabric scraps bordered the runway for the Baby Steinberg "Remnants" show. The designer creates clothes from discarded found objects.

Models posed on the podiums after Baby Steinberg took her final bow.

Patterns were projected onto the runway for the David Dixon show.

Guests could get an up-close look at the clothes during the Judith and Charles presentation in the Studio.

The new tents at David Pecaut Square were considerably smaller than last season's show at Exhibition Place. Crowds filtered out of the runway space slowly after shows.

Gen Art brought its Fresh Faces in Fashion show to Vibiana, where Stand & Deliver delivered a theatrical show on the runway amidst leather, skateboards, and chains.

Zoe Saldana was the evening's host.

A sparkly bar from Fresh Wata added pop at the venue.

Iman Toloui showed bags on an ethnic-print tabletop at the event.

Presenting sponsor Moroccanoil filled bags on guests' seats.

TomTom was among the showcased designers.

Gen Art teamed with Smart to create custom car wraps.

Juma showed in the Studio on Monday evening. The smaller, customizable space is available for designers who want an untraditional show. Passersby outside can look into the space.

The main runway room is more intimate than last season, with a capacity of 700. The runway is 100 feet long and backed by a tall screen.

The MasterCard Lounge is reserved for private guests.

The MasterCard Lounge is located on a second level and overlooks the Studio and the Fashion Environment.

The Sponsor Lounge is next to the MasterCard Lounge and also overlooks the Studio and Fashion Environment. The area is reserved for sponsors and their guests.

Guests can enter their information to join MasterCard's new exclusive discounts and events Web site.

In anticipation of the Mercedes-Benz Start Up finale on Tuesday, a look from each of the five finalists was on display. The winner of the national contest will get its own runway show next season.

Neon letters lined the runway in preparation for the opening Holt Renfrew show.

The Media Lounge is adjacent to the tents. Wireless Internet, catering, and laptops are available to members of the media.

Garment care company Rowenta showed off its new products with demos for guests.

Korhani Home had last season's looks, made out of carpet, on display. The brand will have a runway show today to promote its new home collection.

Cynthia Rowley will visit the Special K booth on Thursday, ending the cereal's Start Something Fabulous contest. The three winning women will show off their new, custom-made dresses designed by Rowley.

The Canadian Tourism Commission created a V.I.P. lounge for international media and incentive travel clients. The lounge is lined with the names of famous Canadians and decorated in Canadiana. 

A red maple leaf marks the entrance of the Canadian Tourism Commission V.I.P. lounge.

Guests lined up outside to enter the tent.

For the entire duration of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Teen Vogue is hosting a lounge inside the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery. The temporary site, dubbed the "Haute Spot," is based on the pop-up shop the magazine opened in the Short Hills Mall in New Jersey.

Building on the pop-up created by the Ricardo Rojas salon in February, Allure built out an empty street-level inside the Empire Hotel. The first-ever Allure lounge showcases new collections from a number of emerging designers, including Gabriela Moya, Kiboots, and Marlies Dekkers.

Allure also brought makeup sponsor Maybelline New York to provide mini makeovers and hair-care company Tigi provide product samples.

The Ricardo Rojas salon offers hairstyling and debuted its new tango-inspired brush line. Visitors to the Allure lounge can also watch livestreams of the shows in the tents and preview Microsoft Windows Phone devices.

In support of the It Gets Better Project—an initiative created to battle bullying, especially of gay and lesbian youth—Elle, designer deal Web site Rue La La, and the Sundance Channel partnered to host a lounge on the 10th floor of the Empire Hotel. Open Friday and Saturday, the endeavor invited Fashion Week attendees to support the project's mission and sign messages to a wall.

The "It Gets Better" Lounge took over four hotel suites and included an oxygen bar courtesy of sponsor PayPal.

Another suite offered bang trims and braiding from the John Barrett Salon.

A big part of the It Gets Better Lounge was to encourage attendees of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week to record P.S.A.s detailing their own experiences with bullying. The section where guests could do so was hosted by the Sundance Channel.

Starting on Sunday, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week's official publication The Daily took over Stone Rose Lounge in the Time Warner Center for a temporary setup it called "Style Sessions." Energy drink Liquid Lightning is one of the sponsors.

International frame manufacturer Silhouette set up a booth at The Daily's "Style Sessions" to showcase new shades for editors.

Hairstylists proffer blowouts and other treatments with John Frieda's Frizz-Ease products.

BlackBerry flaunts new devices, including its recently released PlayBook tablet, and also provided free Wi-Fi.

Whiskey brand the Macallan has its own bar, from which it offers tastings of its single-malt Scotch.

Equinox provides complimentary spa services including massages and brow shaping.

Open from Sunday through today, the Daily-sponsored pop-up restaurant from model Elettra Wiedemann took over chef Ed Brown's restaurant at the Empire Hotel.

The concept for the temporary eatery is to promote local, healthy, and sustainable food, as well as emerging culinary talent. Guest chefs, including Nick Wilbur of the Fat Radish (pictured, left, with Wiedemann), Whitehall's Christopher Rendell, and Rob Newton of Seersucker, create daily menus for the restaurant.

Goodness serves dishes for breakfast and lunch. On the menu are items like swordfish with grilled corn and zucchini succotash (pictured), chilled cantaloupe soup, and a wild mushroom omelet with tomato fricassee, watercress, and multigrain toast.

For the second year, In Style fashioned a lounge inside Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The space, which opened Friday and will run through tomorrow, was produced by Caravents and filled with custom furnishings and elegant floral arrangements.

Computer stations provide convenient and free access to the Internet.

Produced by MKG, the Haute Spot is designed as an interactive, experiential version of the magazine, with style boards curated by Teen Vogue editors, a photo op area from MVS Studio, a blogger lounge, D.I.Y. denim activities, live performances, and meet-and-greets with designers.

The first day the lounge opened, Teen Vogue brought out editor in chief Amy Astley to sign copies of her new book, The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Careers in Fashion.

One of the lounge's major sponsors is Maybelline, also a key sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The cosmetics company has its own section within the space and offered daily makeovers to visitors.

To highlight key fall trends for its readers, Teen Vogue displays clothing and accessories in vignettes. Each tableau is dominated by a mood board, with items tacked to its surface.

The blogger lounge allows attendees to charge their computers and log into their social media accounts. A screen against the wall displays tweets mentioning Teen Vogue's Twitter handle.

The "Declare Your Denim" bar was where lounge visitors could create personalized looks for their jeans with stylist and P.S. I Made This blogger Erica Domesek.

Throughout the week Teen Vogue's "Haute Spot" offers live performances. On opening day, American Idol alum Pia Toscano (pictured) sang for the crowd.

The lounge also hosts screenings where visitors can watch the presentation of spring 2012 collections from the likes of Jill Stuart, Erin Fetherston, Tory Burch, and Phillip Lim, and chat with the designer.

Inside the Gerber Group-operated property, the bar provides an array of food for visitors.

As an added interactive element, Silhouette also offers a photo booth where attendees could try on new eyewear and pose for pictures.

In addition to supplying bottles of its beer, Asahi also brought a caricaturist to the lounge.

Avon is the cosmetics sponsor at The Daily's effort, highlighting its newest skin-care products in a lounge within the venue.

Designed as a place for visitors to meet, eat, and recharge their electronic devices, the In Style lounge also offers concierge services from Quintessentially.

A freestanding, 16-foot-wide and 10-foot-tall wood wall stamped with the brand's name replaced the traditional step-and-repeat for the red carpet arrivals area.

Impressively detailed, the wall at the main entrance to the building's hall was a mosaic of nearly 14,000 two-inch blocks milled from reclaimed oak. Retail display design studio Burke & Pryde helped fashion the piece, pixelating the design and reducing it to five shades of brown. Workers then assembled the 14-foot-wide and 12-foot-tall structure following a grid broken into two- and four-foot sections.

Dividing the main hall, the largest wall was made from an assortment of plywood, moldings, furniture legs, cedar shingles, chopped dowels, repurposed balusters, and oak scrap reclaimed from a sawmill.

To decorate the surface of the main interior wall, the production and design crew created starburst frames from oak, mimosa, and hackberry wood and placed them around the kind of mirrors typically used for security in delis.

On the other side of the wall stood a tiered seating space, furnished with banquettes and tables. The structure also housed the production crew at the top, allowing lighting, and sound engineers full view of the space without interrupting the design.

Although the inspiration was vintage, the overall design for the banquette seating area was clean and contemporary.

With high ceilings and a landmark interior, the producers couldn't attach technical gear overhead, so rather than build trussing, the team opted to create ground supported elements. This included coverings for the footlights, which were painted to match the surrounding marble details.

Bars, fashioned from wood and topped with a leather surface and 1950s-style globe lamps, stood on either of the hall. The event producers integrated the clothing the waitstaff wore into the overall design of the affair, dressing the male servers in striped shirts and white aprons.

Olivier Cheng provided the passed hors d'oeuvres, serving bite-size nibbles of cornmeal-crusted catfish with chipotle mayo, braised short ribs with celery root puree on toast, and waffle potato chips with sweet corn and fava bean succotash. Toward the end of the party, waiters passed sweets, including pumpkin maple whoopie pies, miniature hot fudge sundaes, and open-face apple pies with cinnamon crumble.

Served in mason jars, the night's selection of drinks included mint juleps. Waitstaff also passed cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

In a caged area beside the main doors, the Frye Company set up a shoe shine area marked by a red neon sign in the shape of a boot.

Perhaps the most unexpected detail was the elevator, where custom panels and James Boyd wallpaper wrapped the walls and the operator was dressed as a bellhop.

The promotion of Barbie's 50th anniversary included a large display around the fountain in the center of the tent lobby.