Weep not for the Manhattan fashion mavens forced to visit Brooklyn — elite designer Alexander Wang will provide.
The style superstar has arranged for charter buses, discounted car service and a 149-person ferry to transport guests to his Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week show Saturday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The host has even included helpful maps of Brooklyn with step-by-step directions for those braving the trek by car.
Wang, the main attraction for Fashion Week, stunned style watchers when he revealed he would stage his must-see show across the East River at the sparkling Duggal Greenhouse.
A number of designers, including Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang and Michael Kors, had all previously announced plans to abandon the massive tent shows at the Lincoln Center.
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But Wang is the first big star — and possibly the only one besides Marc Jacobs with enough clout — to skip Manhattan, leaving high-powered fashion editors and other trendsetters to contemplate an unheard of trip to an outer borough.
And this wasn’t going to be some quick train ride to Atlantic Terminal for a show at the Barclays Center.
Duggal is a nearly 15-minute walk from York Street stop on the F train, residents in Brooklyn know well.
Other event organizers had solved the transportation issue with chartered ferry service to the Navy Yard, Duggal spokeswoman Mary Lovci told The Fashion Spot, adding Wang would do the same.
The designer’s team has also added other options to soften the blow for the Brooklyn-averse.
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Free bus service will be available for invitees. Guests are also eligible for a 30 percent discount from the chic Uber car service, a Wang spokeswoman said.
New York Water Taxi, a private charter service, will ship seafaring fashionistas from Pier 11 in lower Manhattan to the door of Duggal, docking at the Navy Yard slip that isn’t typically on the service’s normal route.
Any stowaways not invited to Saturday’s fashion bash during the 15-minute voyage will be dealt with in Brooklyn.
“Security will sift them out,” Nancy Zuckerman of New York Water Taxi said of the less stylish.
Party crashers will be doomed to find their own way home.
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