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This has been an especially eventful sports year so far in New York, what with the Knicks winning the NBA Championship, the World Cup, the ongoing U.S. Open — oh and a certain A-list wedding at Madison Square Garden involving a leading NFL player. Sense a theme?
Sports fandom has been hovering thick over the city like a heat dome (that happened too), but now fashion is about to get some attention, too, with NYFW officially starting Thursday (although some presentations and the Ralph Lauren show are kicking things off even earlier).
One designer that can always be counted on to serve a look with a capital “L” is Christian Siriano, who shared three here exclusively with WWD — their poufs, peplums and fuchsia florals perfectly befitting a modern-day Marie Antoinette.
Meanwhile, Nicola Brognano referenced Kate Moss, whose messy glam certainly tracks with the party-girl aesthetic he’s been injecting into Seven For All Mankind since his directorial debut last season. And LoveShackFancy’s Rebecca Hessel Cohen shared a sketch that somewhat resembles another lanky blonde: Carrie Bradshaw, a New York style icon.
A sketch by Rebecca Hessel Cohen for LoveShackFancy.
Courtesy of LoveShackFancy
Wes Gordon’s picture of a NYC taxi cab.
Courtesy of Carolina Herrera
Speaking of New York icons, Tommy Hilfiger has chosen the famed Plaza hotel as the venue for his upcoming show, while Wes Gordon snapped a photo of an old-school taxi cab parked next to matching yellow tulips in celebration of Carolina Herrera’s 45th anniversary.
Elsewhere, a few designers ventured off the island of Manhattan in search of their inspiration, like the Tanner Fletcher boys, who fell for New England’s coastal charm, and Tibi’s Amy Smilovic, who immersed herself in the sounds of “Music City.”
Ephemera from Tanner Richie’s and Fletcher Kasell’s summer in New England.
Courtesy of Tanner Fletcher
Others grabbed their passports and fled the U.S. entirely, including Michael Bastian of Brooks Brothers, Pamella Roland, Patricio Campillo and Presley Oldham. Their wanderlust took them as far as Monaco, Norway, Acapulco and the U.K., respectively.
And some designers viewed the world through a microscopic lens, homing in on human hands and all things artisanal. At Heirlome, for example, Stephanie Suberville will weave Mexican woodcarving into her first runway presentation, while CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominee Aisling Camps has discovered the beauty in upcycling.
Maricarmen Jiménez surrounded by her father’s wooden animal figures.
Courtesy of Heirlome
A 1920s chrome bracelet from the reference book “Bags, Sacs.”
Courtesy of Tory Burch
Similarly, Michael Kors and Tory Burch based their collections around singular design objects, each emblematic of their sartorial philosophies. For Kors, it’s a Marcel Breuer club chair with the tag line “Modernism,” and for Burch, it’s a 1920s chrome bracelet that somehow challenges her “reality” and “perception.”
Like Burch, Luar’s Raul Lopez seems to be in a liminal headspace, floating somewhere between the codes of “fashion and street, luxury and survival, visibility and erasure,” he said.
The clock is ticking for Lopez to make up his mind before it’s lights up on his show at the Unisphere in Queens. Either way, Sergio Hudson’s muse has the right idea: We write our own ending.
Original artwork by Sergio Hudson.
Courtesy of Sergio Hudson
