UNITED NATIONS: ‘At Fashion Show, U.N. Tour Guides Walk Runway’, New York Times, 15 September 2017

New York City has had Fashion Week in some form for more than 70 years, and the UN has had guides leading visitors on tours for almost as long. So perhaps it was inevitable that the fashion world and the diplomatic world would converge. And so they did, with a red carpet in the General Assembly lobby and music with a pounding bass booming from speakers. There was what amounted to a fashion show, with the designer Elie Tahari looking on. He had designed the new uniforms for the United Nations guides, who showed them off for the first time. 'At Fashion Show, U.N. Tour Guides Walk Runway', New York Times, 15 September 2017