Running through the Garment District (which stretches from 12th Avenue to 5th Avenue and34th Street to 39th Street), it is referred to as Fashion Avenue due to its role as a center of the garment and fashion industry and the famed fashion designers who established New York as a world fashion capital. The first, temporary signs designating the section of Seventh Avenue as "Fashion Avenue" were dual-posted in 1972, with permanent signs added over the ensuing years.Seventh Avenue intersects with Broadway and 42nd Street at Times Square.