Runway show for moms at New York fashion week – in pictures

Celebrity stylist June Ambrose (who has styled everyone from Mary J Blige to Mischa Barton) opened the show Photograph: Arun Nevader/Getty Images

The clothes were a collection of evening dresses to luxe daywear, featuring designers from Chris Benz to Rachel Roy. According to Iman, the aim was to showcase clothes that can be worn "in the office to the playground to date night with the hubby" Photograph: Arun Nevader/Getty Images

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Director of Fashion at Lincoln Center, spoke at the event saying that often it can feel like there is a "red velvet tape around fashion" and that this catwalk show was all about "fashion that the everyday person wants to see and feel good about themselves in Photograph: Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images

The DJ was none other than 8-year-old DJ Fulano, the popular It DJ in New York, who also features in the current Gap Kids advert. He was spinning tunes from Gwen Stefani to Rihanna to MIA. Photograph: Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images

The runway show called Strut: The Fashionable Mom Show, was the brainchild of Denise Albert and Melissa Gerstein, authors of the mother's lifestyle website themoms.com. Photograph: Arun Nevader/Getty Images

Mothers of all shapes (including pregnant), sizes, ages, colours and heights made it down the runway, some were even accompanied by small children. The catwalk, which was donated by designer Douglas Hannant, had an autumnal theme, complete with trees and leaves on the floor. Photograph: Arun Nevader/Getty Images

The model Iman, dressed in a purple Prabal Gurung dress, presented a fashion show on the last day of New York Fashion Week to celebrate motherhood and fashion Fashion topics topix bestof toppics toppix Photograph: Arun Nevader/Getty Images for The Fashionable