Fashion Show Runways

Jonathan Adler designed a custom logo for Diet Pepsi's event and used 14,000 of the beverage brand's cans to create a set that included runway and bench seating.

Fortrex constructed the runway over the Raleigh's pool.

Set designer Shona Heath helped create the look of the show, which included a 50-foot runway covered in a hand-painted canvas inspired by the Cotillion Room's wall paneling. To recreate an authentic Parisian haute couture experience, the producers also hung 20 chandeliers at varying heights from the ceiling.

Climbers from Boston Rock Gym walked straight down the building's 24-story facade. Models also came from Maggie Inc.

CBC host Rick Mercer and model Stacy McKenzie walked the runway at the Bustle show.

As models showcased designs from Just Cavalli's fall collection, videos from '80s-era MTV flickered against a lighted backdrop.

3B Productions founder Sale Stojanovic created a venue with natural decor, resembling the event's surroundings, Collins Park. Stojanovic incorporated green carpeting into the runway to match the park's grassy areas with artificial hedge used for the back wall.

The angular white stage with neon touches spoke to the South Beach location while screens behind the stage referenced landmarks from across the country.

A curved screen served as the backdrop for the three-dimensional fashion show. The production team created tiered seating sections for the 200 Valencia chairs, positioning the first half at ground level and the second lot elevated at levels 7, 14, and 21 inches high.

Mirrored walls ensured audience members could see the gowns in their entirety.

 The show featured a 40- by-50-foot LED screen backdrop.

The set for the Kidrobot fashion show featured an all-white runway and bright lights.

Michael Designs Inc. set up a graduated runway down the center of the nightclub's main floor for the 25-minute fashion show.

At the Los Angeles hair show, guests included top Schwarzkopf executives, sales teams, and distributors from the United States and Europe.

The backdrop for the show was a 60-foot-long LED wall that, before the presentation started, displayed the date and time of the season premiere of Suits as well as the event's hashtag. The video wall ran the length of the catwalk and metal benches facing it were reserved for cast, celebrities, and other V.I.P.s.

During the fashion show, a Corvette from event sponsor Chevy descended onto the stage in a cloud of smoke.

The building facade used as the background for the stage opened throughout the show, for large set pieces and props like an inflatable dog.

Models wearing items from Chanel's cruise collection walked a runway surrounded by a pool of water.

Models walked a 140-foot runway in the underground garage at the Audi Downtown Toronto dealership.

A U-shaped runway enclosed an additional seating area for guests.

Video screens surrounded by black decorative frames flanked the runway.

Beads made out of ice hung on either side of the runway.

The set design for the runway show complemented the Art Moderne architecture in the Carlu's Concert Hall and provided an elegant setting for Oscar de la Renta's fall 2010 collection.

For his first-ever women's runway show, Thom Browne created his own vision of a winter wonderland at Center548. Guests entering the studio space found an ominous winter forest complete with fake snow on the ground and an elaborate tableau of tree branches delicately placed throughout. As the female models casually sauntered down the runway, they flirted with lifeless-looking male models, who were clad in Browne's menswear, sported crowns of thorns, and were blindfolded and bound to metal bed frames with blood-red strips of fabric.

For its fall show at the Lincoln Center tents, Lacoste show producer Alex de Betak of Bureau Betak constructed an 18- by 18-foot cube that had seven openings, the slots of which opened and closed to a soundtrack. Constructed from old-fashioned mechanics, all manually operated, the workings of the box were inspired by the explorative and transformative nature of the collection, which was both futuristic and soft at the same time.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Kate Spade's fall presentation, held at Center548, lived up to its "Vintage New York" theme, incorporating a bevy of yellow checked cabs in the center of the venue. Models surrounding the taxis, clad in outfits that featured whimsical urban icons like hot dogs, street signs, and the Empire State Building, were bathed in a plethora of neon lights while a backdrop Kate Spade New York logo wall was even tagged with pink graffiti.

After multiple seasons of showing in vast downtown spaces, Jason Wu opted for the uptown glamour (and intimacy) of 583 Park Avenue. His fall show, entitled "Extreme Femininity" and produced by Bureau Betak, was set up in a square formation with models walking along a glossy black-and-mirrored runway around a massive crystal chandelier that hovered in the middle of the runway and was hung low to the ground.

Under the direction of Villa Eugenie, Gotham Hall was transformed into a jaw-dropping scene that seemed to transport guests straight into an après-ski party for the Moncler Grenoble collection show. Risers as high as 40 feet mimicked mountains, supporting 370 models clad in all green (a nod to a forest), while the ceiling of the blacked-out tent was mirrored to give the illusion of infinite models on display. Set to a soundtrack of heavy beats, the presentation was mostly dark, save for the bursts of light that flashed overhead like a strobe.

To introduce her new activewear collection, Betsey Johnson enlisted a troop of models to join her on her fall runway at Lincoln Center for an engaging workout. The show, a precursor to Johnson's workout video premiering on her upcoming reality series, featured models chatting on cell phones strutting down the runway as they lined up on pink yoga mats emblazoned with the show's theme, "BJ Kicks A." Once in place, each model performed an exercise routine using leopard-print tights as stretch bands and champagne bottles as dumbbells. The event was produced by the brand's in-house team alongside LDJ Productions.

Inspired by memories of their California childhood, Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy sought to bring to life their upbringing with the runway backdrop for their fall show. Produced by Bureau Betak and staged at Center548, models walked through a forest of multicolored fluorescent lights set in cinder blocks, reminiscent of a Dan Flavin installation, that channeled the Santa Cruz boardwalk's brightly lit amusement rides in a modern way.

Syzygy Events International took inspiration from Jason Wu's black and white spring 2013 show and the checkered pattern of Louis Vuitton when it came to designing this year's stage and runway. Three rows of Edison lights flanked the checkered wall in an homage to the glitz of the Grammys stage. The team created a circular runway with models stopping at every quarter mark as they made their way around to pose for photographers and supporters at the dinner tables.