Fashion Herald Models Bryant Park Resort Wear

Katie from the Bryant Park Blog stops by to cover the latest apparel available at the Bryant Park Shop. Click here and here for a refresher on the link between the Bryant Park Corporation and 34th Street Partnership business improvement districts.

BPC does it all! Tricia models with two custom Bryant Park designs: trash cans and t-shirts

Since stores are filling up with what I believe the fashion professionals refer to as 'resort wear', I thought it would be apropos to do a fashion-themed crossover between 34th Street and Bryant Park. Especially since we have our own line of resort wear available over at the Bryant Park Shop...well, sort of.

(Plus, when you share an office with a model-turned-fashion-blogger and you have new Bryant Park t-shirts to show off, it only seems natural to request a photo shoot and guest post.)

The scene on the front of the Illustration tee mirrors the view from our office windows

Created by Bryant Park Corporation's Graphic Designer, Jamie Song, our first-edition Bryant Park t-shirts are made of super soft jersey cotton from American Apparel, come in men's and women's sizes small to extra large, and are perfect for throwing over a bathing suit on your exotic spring beach vacation.

Conveniently, the tees do double duty as lounge wear for those of us who aren't jetting off to Acapulco any time soon.

Click on the photos to see more images of each shirt and details of the front and back designs. The t-shirts are $19.99 each and on sale exclusively at the Bryant Park Shop.

And here's a fact that may make your t-shirt shopping easier: The Bryant Park Corporation is a not-for-profit organization, so all income from the shop goes right back into the maintenance of everyone's favorite midtown park. Isn't that a great deal?

http://shop.bryantpark.org

Why?

I used to have a friend who, after over-imbibing heady spirits, would moan "Why? What does it all mean? Whyyyy?" My Black Irish heritage relished every tortured, existential "why" moment we spent together.

But here is one "why" I can answer: Why am I writing a blog about shopping on 34th Street, and why am I writing a blog about shopping in Bryant Park? Let's dish:

I work for two business improvement districts in midtown Manhattan, the 34th Street Partnership and Bryant Park Corporation. We're non-profit, urban management companies that run public spaces in the city. I know, you're nodding off already. So I'll just tell you that we like to obsess about: trashcans. I can no longer look at OPT (other people's trashcans) without shaking my head and pontificating on the horror of throwing one's trash into an old, beat-up oil barrel. I do this till my husband yells at me to stop ruining his day.

Besides trashcans, we obsess on: street furniture (newsboxes, bike racks etc. all designed by our very talented industrial designer Ignacio Ciocchini), horticulture (Bryant Park, Herald & Greeley Squares, and planters and hanging baskets you see on 34th Street, all thanks to our very talented horticulturalist Maureen Hackett), capital projects (lightpoles, street signs, street corners and crosswalks, etc.), sanitation, security, and retail. We also have an events department that oversees all the events in Bryant, Herald and Greeley.

I work for the retail department and, through blogging, help promote the stores on 34th Street and contribute to the Bryant Park blog. So I go out to our 34th Street stores, or The Holiday Shops during their tenure in the park, take pictures and show you what they've got. All to lure you into our districts and get you to shop, mwahaha! No, actually, it's not sinister at all. 34th Street is more of an outdoor mall in the middle of Midtown Manhattan. And Bryant Park is one of the prettiest city parks you'll ever visit.

Thanks for letting me rant, and please feel free to email me any questions you may have about funding, streetscape elements, retail stores, or how badly I (ahem, "we") want Topshop on 34th Street. You know, the really important stuff.

Gap Artist Editions in Bryant Park

Because I just posted these the other day:










































Beautiful, right? Thanks to the great photographers at Bryant Park Corporation (for whom I also work). Don't the Gap Artist Edition T-shirts look damn good framed, and amongst the trees? They'll be up in Bryant Park until June 4th. Go check them out and have a sandwich at 'wichcraft while you're there. You can try out the fare that should soon also be available in Herald & Greeley Squares on 34th Street.

Gap, 60 W. 34th @ 6th Avenue