The collection had a 1970s nostalgic feel thanks to metallic golds, mixed prints, jumpsuits and high-waisted suits. “You know, it’s a lot like sitting courtside at a basketball game, you just can’t believe how tall they are”. It’s about the patching. “It’s (for) a woman to feel like a goddess”, said the famously candid designer.
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“I would say that I buy a lot of clothes”, she laughed without committing. “It’s flattering, it’s not overly challenging, so I’m absolutely going to be wearing that”.
“It’s easy because I went to school for it”, she said. Anyway, you get the flow.
“This was to challenge the idea of the runway show and runway stride of models”. The latest iteration, “Friendship is Magic”, airs Saturdays on the Discovery Family channel, if you’re looking to tune in. Some brands will combine both of those and also have streams touring the designers’ ateliers before or after the show happens.
“I’m obsessed with uniforms”. It’s like you’re really there! “She has been there for me in times like this, but she has also been there for me at 3 o’clock in the morning when I am crying and couldn’t get through the day, so it was obviously a no-brainer that she was here”. He stated it drew from his West Indian background and the uniforms utilized in faculties regardless of poor circumstances.
“It’s my imagination of what the cool kids in the ’80s on the Lower East Side in New York were doing”, he said in a backstage interview.
Among the many celebrities available have been “Empire” creator Lee Daniels and actor Bryshere Y. Grey. Today, social media coverage is arguably the most important method of spreading information about the shows.
And that was just ON the runway.
A model walks the runway at the FTL Moda Fashion Show during New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016 Collections in New York City on September 13, 2015. “So I was excited by working on it. It’s been a tough week but this is a very liberating collection”. If ever there were to be a Shangri-La of shoes, SJP would be its empress.
The collaboration is fitting considering the label is designing costumes for the ballet.
But back to the clothes. And this time, no signature sky-high stilettos, but rather flats, kitten heels and sandals.
Eccentric and gothic but feminine, sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy at Rodarte said they were inspired by poets Emily Dickinson, novelist William Burroughs or Canadian singer Leonard Cohen. And they might also need a loose tank dress in orange evoking a meadow, or a biker jacket adorned with pink mountain buds.
There was no better testing ground to find out than the Givenchy show on Friday night, which was opened up to over 800 non-fashion insiders who won tickets online. “He is really supportive”.
It’s a busy week for Burch: On Wednesday she debuts her Tory Sport activewear line in a New York pop-up shop.
He was of course seated next to his usual front-row buddy: Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Donna Karan attended the DKNY show to support the line’s new creative directors, Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow.
There were futuristic bikinis topped with bangled dresses, silkscreen dresses with images of vampy women, and knit miniskirts with big cartoon faces on them.
At the same time, while having venues in far-flung corners of the city poses a challenge to attendees, for newer designers who have questioned the relevance – and cost – of participating in Fashion Week, it may prove beneficial.
Sitting in the front row, Wilde said, is always fun, but a little stressful. Just ask Rebecca Minkoff, who teamed up with Smartwater and MODE Studios to give her fans a glimpse at the daily inspirations that drive her collections. “She has hung out in Europe and Asia however finally her house is right here in New York Metropolis”. She’s come back with a new perspective, enlightened and liberated in a way.
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Max Azria of BCBG Max Azria also had a devil-may-care woman in mind when he designed a sunny collection that he described as “for a woman of any age”. The pajama influence was here, with long flowy duster-style coats and drapey trousers and dresses.
