NEW YORK (AP) — New York welcomed Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Thursday amid icy sidewalks, crosswalks piled high with slush and temperatures in the 20s.

Even dedicated fashionistas mostly wore boots to attend the shows rather than stiletto pumps. And since designers were showing their fall-winter collections in the tents at Lincoln Center and other venues around town, it made sense that boots and inviting outerwear — from bathrobe coats at Richard Chai to purses that looked like fur muffs at BCBG Max Azria — were in abundance on the runways.