History of Nails at Fashion Week

NAILSW THE HISTORY OF FASHION • DWEEK CND'S "ELECTRIC ORANGE" MANICURE MILLY SS12 For the past 15 years, CND has been backstage at Fashion Week, partnering with designers to create custom nail styles for the runway. Take a look at how nail art has evolved into the must-have fashion accessory. THE EVOLUTION OF NAILS AT NYFW THE FIRST FASHION WEEK LAUNCHES IN NEW YORK, CALLED "PRESS WEEK" 1943 -- 1993 -- NEW YORK FASHION WEEK (NYFW) MOVES TO BRYANT PARK CND DEBUTS AT NYFW, CREATES 1996 -- CUSTOM NAIL LOOKS FOR CYNTHIA ROWLEY AND NICOLE MILLER INTRODUCING THE CND LOOK BOOK, THE FASHION WEEK 'NAIL-STYLE BIBLE' 2003-- REPORTING GOES REAL-TIME WHEN FASHION 2005-- AND BEAUTY BLOGGERS ARE GRANTED PRESS ACCESS TO THE TENTS NYFW MBFW 2009-- <> NEW YORK MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK FASHION WEEK 2010 MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK MOVES TO LINCOLN CENTER 169,698 TWEETS ARE SENT OUT ABOUT SS12 DURING #MBEW 2011 CND'S FASHION WEEK EVOLUTION POLISH BY THE NUMBERS 15 5 YEARS SPENT DESIGNING CUSTOM CND NAILS AT FASHION WEEK 1200 Seasons Co-Founder & Style Director FINGERS & TOES Jan Arnold has been blogging about Fashion Week on CNDFashionWeek.com POLISHED BY CND IN 2006 m DURING NYFW 294 International runway shows and presentations featuring custom CND nails to date 71 Runway shows at MBFW Sso9 featuring CND nails 7- NEW YORK LONDON TREA GUMP/ PARIS O o MILAN MADRID O Fashion Week cities with CND nail technicians 60 CND SHELLAC FLASH DUBAI MOB DANCERS perform in Times Square on backstage as of 2011 September 14th, 2011 O SYDNEY Polishes included in the JASON WU Collection by CND, inspired by his Spring 2011 Collection BACKSTAGE WITH CND CND 24 USED KARATS of gold to create manicures for Baby Phat's runway show in 2009 100 to hand-detail 20 sets of nail tips to create the "Glitz & Glam" manicures for The HOURS, Blonds SS12 show Drops of CND Blackjack mixed with Bicycle Yellow to create the "Murky Mustard" shade wom by the models at Karen Walker FW11 used to create the "Van Gough Blue" that accompanied Gwen Stefani's SS11 L.A.M.B collection CND POLISH COLORS down the runway LIVE FROM THE RUNWAY Join CNDWorld on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest. On Facebook at Facebook.com/CNDfan CNDO. Hands. Feet. Beauty. CNDFashionWeek.com Data courtesy of CND. Twitter Mashable. Wikipedia and Bravo.