To learn more about Long Island City Fashion Week, read Fashion garage: driving design to new places.

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Backstage, it was like any other fashion show: chaotic, models hastily pulling on skin-tight dresses while getting spritzed with hairspray. A blonde model stood motionless as a designer wound zippers and strips of fabric around and around her arms. She then headed past the clothing racks to the runway, picking her way past the wrenches, past the drills, past the spare parts, treading cautiously to avoid the equipment that littered the floor of the auto repair shop. The model ducked so the top of her pompadour wouldn’t graze the red Porsche hoisted up on the lift up above.

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