New York Fashion Week Is Put to Sleep

Each season Fashion Week descends upon New York like a hurricane. Even at its new Lincoln Center location, a whirlwind of models, designers, celebrities, journalists, and young fashionistas hoping to catch a glimpse of all the action takes over the city, if but one testament to New York’s calling card: The city that never sleeps. Front-rowers dashing from show to show (perhaps Anna Wintour got carried down five flights of stairs again this season?), models changing at breakneck speed to walk down their fourth or fifth runway of the day, designers making sure every last detail is perfect before sending their wares out for their debut…

The excitement ran like electricity: fast, constant, and was found everywhere you looked. With back-to-back shows and after-parties galore, it’s always amazing that anyone can survive New York Fashion Week and all the debauchery that seems to go hand in hand. Does anyone get any shut-eye when the glitterati come to town? Our guess is not much. But now that the New York chapter has closed and the fashion folk have crossed the pond to check out the London shows, those of us left behind are looking forward to catching up on some beauty sleep.

But you know who else is catching up on their z’s? The 19 boys who lay their heads at the Christ Child Convalescent Home in Trinidad and Tobago. We here at Fifth on Main know how important it is to get a good night’s sleep. If Fashion Week is any indication, so many of us take the time spent on resting, refueling, and reenergizing our bodies for granted. And though most adults can learn to live with an insufficient amount of sleep, children need the downtime to grow and stay healthy, but most importantly to be able to be alert and think so that they can answer questions or learn something new while they’re in school. How else will our future leaders be prepared to be our future leaders?

The future of our children should be our No. 1 concern--even if they aren’t our biological children. Which is why we donated 25 beds to the Christ Child orphanage. Because every child deserves a chance at a bright future. And who knows? One of the recipients could very well be the next Alexander Wang or Marc Jacobs…