From left: Elia, Carolina Herrera and Coach.
Photo Illustration: By The Cut. Photo: Courtesy Area, Carolina Herrera, Coach
Fashion Week, which concludes Wednesday night, has established two major themes for the season. Either you wear clothes for the performance or you wear nothing. Or you can just use a bath towel. Maryam Nassir Zadeh closed the show with a girl in a white terrycloth dress. This was after Zade paraded her girls on the sidewalks of Forsyth Street on the Lower East Side and handball courts on Grand Street. One model wore what looked like two scalloped and embroidered souvenir cotton coasters that he had strung together. The bottom half of Zadeh’s outfit wasn’t quite as full, if you can call it that.
A colleague of mine complained that Zade was in a “styling arms race.” I mean, she was trying to make a provocative statement in Pairing and Shape. I don’t trust her very much. This was a lazy effort. As she watched the show, Zade felt like she was somewhere hot and heavenly this summer. Skimpy tops and cover-ups hinted at the beach. But what does that mean on the gritty edges of Chinatown? I liked not to look. And another thing: some of Zadeh’s fabrics looked vintage, so it was clear they were precious to her. It might be more correct to say that it gave. And it was a nuisance.
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Photo: Madison Voelkel/Courtesy of Maryam Nassir Zadeh
Fans of Piotrek Pansik’s label Elia, which was exhibited at the former Whitney Museum of American Art on Monday, know how to grab attention. A woman in heavy make-up stood in the middle of Madison Avenue, literally stopping traffic while making grinding movements aimed at her buttocks. Waiting taxi. Meanwhile, schools on the Upper East Side had just closed, so the sidewalks were filled with mothers, kids in private school uniforms, and dogs. It was quite a scene.
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In fact, much of Monday’s performance activity took place on the Upper East Side. This is not as strange as it sounds. Think of the decades of socialites who, in the days of Bill Blass and Oscar de la Renta, dressed up for shows in Pierre and the Plaza’s Grand Ballroom. Think of the clotheshorse hoping to catch the eye of the late photographer Bill Cunningham, who stood on the corner of 5th Avenue and his 57th Street. Think of the Met Ball circus in May.
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The difference is that socialites have largely been replaced by influencers and celebrities (generally minors). Even at 10 a.m., they come in with glamorous hair and makeup.Tulle, satin and diamonds at brunch time — designer Wes Gordon has found a niche in dressy — it’s still incredibly nonsense. It’s realistic. Again, with social media clearly raising the stakes for front row guests, this is almost a difficult level of performance.
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Photo: Courtesy of Carolina Herrera
As for Gordon’s collection, it looked current and elegant.Hear the pure voice of Barbra Streisand (from funny girl) The sound system showed a model in a full-sleeved navy striped blouse paired with a rose pink floral evening skirt, followed by Karlie Kloss, smiling and showing off in a one-shoulder striped summer gown. So it was no problem. abdomen. Gordon effortlessly pulls together big bow-wow numbers, such as wavy skirts in soft florals, chic cocktail dresses with sprayed tulle, and skips the fussy details. That’s right. The collection was not strictly ‘daytime’, but also focused on a slightly more casual style. For example, his sharp strapless column with wide black and white stripes, his raspberry beaded wool mini suit, and his cute black canvas hat with black trim. Net.
“I want people to know that craft isn’t a fleeting moment,” Panszczyk told me after the Area show. After seeing a cage-like coat made of strips of material spiked around with dozens of silvery metal cones, who can suspect that? with wide-leg pants made of intertwined strips of fabric reminiscent of electrical wires? He knows that creativity doesn’t matter if the design isn’t well constructed. We have incorporated many simple denim-like mini-length styles. But the show’s work mattered, and many frankly bared their bodies with cloth covering sexual areas or flat beaded bows.
The coach took over the Park Avenue Armory and set up a huge wooden platform in the middle, with spectators riding on risers a short distance away. Creative his director Stuart Vevers was inspired by the idea of a New Yorker traveling between New York City and Rockaway Beach, Coney He Island Beach in the summer, but this didn’t pan out. Besides, the clothes looked a little sad and drab. Vevers had previously stated that he wanted to “strip off” things like elemental leather his jacket (some from reworked clothing), shorts, gingham his babydoll his dress. The leather jacket was nice, but I was longing for more color and, yes, more bare skin.
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Photo: Courtesy of Coach
LoveShackFancy founder Rebecca Hessel Cohen has no illusions about what many women want. After a coach beach bummer, I wandered through Madison to attend Cohen’s raucous, music-filled garden party at Cooper Hewitt on 90th Street. Its frills and romance are a throwback to classic Hollywood movie cotillions and feminine beauty.
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Or are you still there? You can make a lot of money by giving people what they want and doing it over and over again. I admired the huge bank of almost flushed pink and ivory roses, the champagne table and the sweet pink macaroons. Then I left for the more normal wilderness of the Upper East Side and handed over the French He Bulldog and Golden His Retriever to their owners.
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