If you happen to be in New York this week, you’re in luck. Not only can you claw your way through the Barneys Warehouse Sale but get ready to party 1990’s Grind-style, or head over to Craigslist for fashion week tickets and you just might score a free ride to Jersey.

Join the frenzy. Indeed.

1/ The bi-annual Barneys New York Warehouse Sale starts today just in time for fashion week. Now is the time to find your Dries Van Noten, Lanvin, and Marc Jacobs at 50-75% off. Our tip: Wear a dress or skirt for easy try-ons as there are no dressing rooms. We would love to hear what treasures you find as well!

*255 West 17th Street, between 7th & 8th Avenues. 212-450-8400

Hours: Thursday, Feb. 12th - Friday, the 13th: 8am - 9pm / Weekdays: 10am - 9pm, Weekends: 10am - 7pm

2/ Party like it’s 1992 again at photographer Clifton Parker’s fashion week bash with host Eric Nies. Yes that Eric Nies, the early ’90s host of MTV’s dance show The Grind. Our tip: Don’t forget your baja jacket.

*Friday, Feb. 13th / Hudson Terrace, 641 West 46th Street, between 11th & 12th Avenues / Doors at 9pm /  RSVP necessary to info@cliftonparker.com

3/ British designer Matthew Williamson will be opening his first U.S. store in New York’s Meatpacking District, with an opening party on Sunday night. Fans of Williamson’s Indian-inspired togs include Sienna Miller and Jade Jagger. This one will be a tight list. Our tip: Ogle from across the street.

*Sunday, Feb. 15th, 6:30 - 9:30pm / 415 W. 14th Street, near Washington Street

Hopefully Bryant Park is a little more organized.

4/ Who says there are no free rides? Maybelline and Marie Claire are teaming up to offer complimentary taxi rides to fashion week attendees as they leave the Bryant Park tents on Thursday, Feb. 19th. The stunt is to promote the Style Network’s new reality series Running in Heels, starring Marie Claire fashion editor Nina Garcia. No word yet on how far one can go once inside the cab. Our tip: Hoboken, please! (Fashion Week Daily)

Surprise, honey! We're not on the list!

5/ Can’t get into the shows? Need a Valentine’s Day date idea? Try Craigslist. For anywhere from $80 - $500, you too can stand with the best of them. Since the last time we checked, Charlotte Ronson show scalpers seem to be pretty popular. Our tip: Don’t waste your money. Instead, stay tuned to The Totam for fashion week updates from the Rachel Comey, Karen Walker, Tom Scott and Matthew Ames’ shows. (The Cut)

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Today’s New York Times Sunday Styles section featured a full page advertisement for Barney’s announcing:

“Balenciaga.Edition -

Masterpieces from the Balenciaga Archives. Limited Exclusive Offering by Order only.”

Surely this is going to cause fashion pandemonium as the carefully chosen words used are: “Balenciaga,” “Archives,” “Limited,” and “Exclusive.” If your heart is beating faster already, read on. For obsessive vintage designer-philes, Balenciaga is high up there on the list. If these pieces are from the archives of the 1950s and 60s when Cristóbal Balenciaga reined supreme, expect a world of difference from the Balenciaga that Nicolas Ghesquière has introduced to the modern fashion world, but expect nothing less than perfection. Balenciaga was revered by many as ‘the master’ and was known for his sculptural exact cuts; he was a perfectionist and would reset sleeves often after a client was already wearing the piece or after the item was shown in a collection. He was also one of the first to introduce the silhouettes that still influence so many designers today: the cocoon jacket, the balloon skirt, and the sack dress. Cristóbal left the house of Balenciaga in 1968.

Irving Penn photographed his wife, model Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in this layered feather Balenciaga dress in 1950.

and this tiered sleeve cape

A sleeve detail

Although these stellar pieces are probably not a part of Barney’s offering, there may be similar cuts or silhouettes to behold.

Other amazing vintage Balenciaga pieces:

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Barney’s Balenciaga Archive is by appointment only, Thurs, Nov. 13th & Fri, Nov. 14th at the New York location (212-826-8900 x2152.) Chicago, Dallas, Beverly Hills and San Francisco locations follow.

Tags: Balenciaga, Barneys, Irving Penn, Nicolas Ghesquière, vintage.