"This collection is inspired by the romance and fantasy of 18th-century France, imagined through the lens of a forgotten French fairy-tale story, The Queen of the Flowery Isles.” — Christian Siriano
"This collection is inspired by the romance and fantasy of 18th-century France, imagined through the lens of a forgotten French fairy-tale story, The Queen of the Flowery Isles.” — Christian Siriano
"I spotted Howard Gardiner Cushing's paintings in a November 1972 issue of Vogue and fell down the rabbit hole, all the way to ‘The Ledges,’ his Newport house, and his whole world of fantasy and wonderment." — Anna Sui
"I spotted Howard Gardiner Cushing's paintings in a November 1972 issue of Vogue and fell down the rabbit hole, all the way to ‘The Ledges,’ his Newport house, and his whole world of fantasy and wonderment." — Anna Sui
"This collection is inspired by the romance and fantasy of 18th-century France, imagined through the lens of a forgotten French fairy-tale story, The Queen of the Flowery Isles.” — Christian Siriano
"This collection is inspired by the romance and fantasy of 18th-century France, imagined through the lens of a forgotten French fairy-tale story, The Queen of the Flowery Isles.” — Christian Siriano
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.
"Femme, cool, a little undone and completely herself." — Rebecca Hessel Cohen
A sketch by Rebecca Hessel Cohen for LoveShackFancy.
"45 years of Herrera." — Wes Gordon
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.”
“A summer in New England.” — Tanner Richie and Fletcher Kasell
Ephemera from Tanner Richie’s and Fletcher Kasell’s summer in New England.
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.
"This season centers on pure craftsmanship, guided by our collaborator Maricarmen Jiménez and a meaningful posthumous partnership with her father, Angélico Jiménez Hernández.” — Stephanie Suberville
Maricarmen Jiménez surrounded by her father’s wooden animal figures.
"Reality vs. perception.” — Tory Burch
A 1920s chrome bracelet from the reference book “Bags, Sacs.”
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.
"She writes the ending." — Sergio Hudson
Original artwork by Sergio Hudson. Courtesy of Sergio Hudson