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In November 2009, Wolkoff became the founding Fashion Director of Lincoln Center, and oversaw the relocation of New York City’s biannual Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. In addition, she supervises every aspect of Lincoln Center-based Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week events, and is coordinating an ambitious year-round initiative of fashion-related programming at Lincoln Center including, playing host to the CFDA Awards, international conferences and designer lecture series.
As an integral role in the fashion industry, Wolkoff is a consultant to IMG, connecting with a common voice the various constituencies that come together to organize Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week as well as consulting on and helping to create solutions supporting IMG Fashion's overarching mission to facilitate a gateway to the fashion world - from creation to consumer. In addition, she works closely with the Mayor’s Special Projects and Community Events office to facilitate city wide initiatives, the Department of Education, and the New York City Housing Authority.
A sterling pedigree in the world of fashion publication prepared Wolkoff for her Lincoln Center position. For over a decade, Wolkoff served as director of special events at Vogue magazine, working closely with and being mentored by Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour in overseeing and producing major events for Vogue, Men’s Vogue, and Vogue Living; the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit, The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, 7th on Sale, to name a few.
Wolkoff finds time for active involvement in several charitable and community causes, including the Food Allergy Initiative, Baby Buggy, New Yorkers for Children, and the Central Park Conservancy. Wolkoff was honored by her high school, Suffield Academy, with their Alumni Leadership Award; the Albert Einstein School of Medicine’s Spirit of Achievement Award, and this year she is being honored by the UJA at their Women of Influence event, as well as, by The Gordon Parks Foundation at their Annual Awards Dinner celebrating creativity, along with Karl Lagerfeld, Spike Lee and Sir Ken Robinson.
She lives with her husband and three young children in her native New York City.
Blog Entries by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
New York Fashion Week: Day 4
As another season of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week threatens to speed by, I like to think that I've given renewed meaning to the expression "back-to-back." In the past four days alone, I've seen the work of countless friends and colleagues march down the runways. I've made pre-show appearances backstage, post-show appearances...
New York Fashion Week: Let The Games Begin
While the rest of the city continues to celebrate New York's crowning achievement winning the Superbowl, those in the fashion industry have just embarked upon their own festivities. Yesterday marked day one of Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week, and appropriately so, New York Giants' own Victor Cruz (the talented wide receiver who...
New York Fashion Week: Let The Games Begin
While the rest of the city continues to celebrate New York's crowning achievement winning the Superbowl, those in the fashion industry have just embarked upon their own festivities. Yesterday marked day one of Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week, and appropriately so, New York Giants' own Victor Cruz (the talented wide receiver who...
Remembering 9/11
There is no easy or "right" way to navigate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. There isn't a proper way for the country to do it. As recent debate has indicated, there isn't a perfect way for the City to do it. And there isn't an exact formula that the fashion...
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Has Taken Center Stage at Lincoln Center
For most of the Western world, January 1st marks the official onset of a new year. But for we who work, toil and triumph in the fashion industry, nothing spells fresh start quite the way September does. Like kids heading back to school, our community returns from its collective summer...
