Several splashy hotels have opened just in time for New York Fashion Week (Sept. 7 to 13). Here are five new spots (and one coming soon) that are sure to be industry hangouts — dreamy dens for getting your fashionista on.
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge
60 Furman St., Brooklyn
This second 1 Hotel in New York City — the first, 1 Hotel Central Park, opened in 2015 in Midtown — comes from hospitality innovator Barry Sternlicht, the man who created W Hotels.
The four-month-old, 194-room property’s perch overlooking the greenery of Brooklyn Bridge Park and the water beyond highlights the brand’s focus on eco-consciousness and sustainable living. And there’s no better place to find fashion’s cool kids partying (against vistas of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty) than on its newly opened, 4,000-square-foot rooftop, run by restaurateur Matt Abramcyk of Smith & Mills and the Beatrice Inn fame, and nightlife impresario Eddie Bilowich, known for 1 Oak and Paul Sevigny’s Paul’s Casablanca (from $350).
Whitby
18 W. 56th St.
Firmdale Hotels’ properties are always fashion-world go-tos. Now, co-owner and design director Kit Kemp has added this Midtown branch to her portfolio of playfully patterned and deeply cosseting stays.
Perfect for hosting pre- or post-runway cocktails, the residential-feeling public spaces include a lively bar and restaurant, a sunlight-filled orangery, a library like drawing room and a courtyard garden, while several of the 86 individually decorated rooms and suites have private outdoor space (from $695).
Public
215 Chrystie St.
Talk about raising your fashion game. With the June debut of this Chrystie Street spot (and its already Insta-famous escalator, at top), hotelier extraordinaire Ian Schrager continues his New York comeback (not that he ever really left), following the 2015 opening of his Edition on Madison Square Park.
The 367 rooms at Public, the motto of which is “Luxury For All,” occupy the first 18 floors of a 28-story building designed by Swiss starchitects Herzog & de Meuron, who also collaborated with Schrager on the interiors. Minimalist chic rooms give way to public spaces — including a lobby bar, rooftop lounge, red-curtained multimedia performance space, David Barton gym and two Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurants — one globehopping, the other comfort-food-focused (from $150).
Life Hotel
19 W. 31st St.
Restaurateur Stephen Hanson — who, as founder of BR Guest Hospitality, created Blue Water Grill and Dos Caminos — brings us this 98-room spot fittingly near the Garment
District.
Reinventing an eight-story NoMad building (built in 1895) that held offices for the original Life magazine, designers stripped back years of history to reveal details like marble floors and wood moldings conceived by Carrère & Hastings, the same firm that designed the main branch of the New York Public Library (from $295).
Moxy Times Square
485 Seventh Ave.
Arriving just in time for the start of Fashion Week, this latest outpost of Marriott’s millennial-chasing minihotel brand puts the luxe in micro-luxury. Although its 612 petite rooms start at just 150 square feet, they’re all designed by the glamour mavens at Yabu Pushelberg, who handled the Park Hyatt on 57th Street.
The décor of its various restaurants and bars is by the famed Rockwell Group, with food and drink from the Tao Group, including what’s served in the 18th-floor Magic Hour bar. It’ll be NYC’s largest indoor/outdoor hotel rooftop lounge, complete with a topiary garden and minigolf — and it’s already planning to host NYFW after-parties (from $139).
Cachet Boutique NYC
510 W. 42nd St.
There’ll be lots of sartorial love later in the summer for the 105-room Cachet Boutique NYC, which will open on far West 42nd Street on Sept. 20 — the first US property from the Asia-based Cachet brand.
Fashion designer Jay Godfrey, who has dressed Laverne Cox, Blake Lively and Olivia Palermo, is handling decorating duties, creating an evocative East-West mix. Don’t miss the in-house Playboy Club (from $329).