Marc Jacobs’ Fall/Winter 2020 collection was an in-depth treatise on sartorial refinement, highly considered and impeccably crafted. Mostly absent of prints and, at least where the daywear was concerned, free of any extras or adornments, the collection was as spare as the dance was audacious. Jacobs threw it back to the 1960s-Jackie Kennedy, Rosemary Woodhouse,
St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue was the perfect spot to stage Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s vision for Rodarte Fall/Winter 2020. The duo have always mined their favorite films and cinematic moments for inspiration, and this season it seems vampires and other gothic characters were on the brain. The Los Angeles sisters name-checked Bram Stoker’s
After a season in Milan, the Australian designer Dion Lee returned to New York with a collection that played on the idea of androgyny and sensual deconstruction. The starting point of the collection was the fusion of jewelry and garment. That led to the notion of suspension and ultra-sexualized looks. ‘’It’s really focusing on the
Michael Kors returns to his haute sportswear roots, full of cozy dressing classics, timeless outerwear and equestrian élan for Fall/Winter 2020 collection. Kors’s comfort applied to both day and night. The collection’s blanket capes came from an urge for escape, he said. ‘’It’s the dream of getting out, getting away from reality’’. Trench capes, blanket
Held at the James B. Duke House on Fifth Avenue, one of the last extant great mansions of Millionaires’ Row, the Vera Wang Fall/Winter 2020 collection was about reinventing evening clothes for daytime, or even the bedroom. I was looking at something a little bit lighter, a little bit easier, something with a charm and
‘’Clothes are warm, round, enveloping, and worn with the ease and nonchalance that is a defining quality of the Proenza Schouler woman. She is outfitted in elements codified with familiarity and classicism yet is never beholden to dated notions of formality’’, Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez shared in the show notes. They added
Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, the design duo behind Oscar de la Renta, made it worth the trip by showing an eveningwear-driven collection for Fall/Winter 2020. Using Truman Capote’s 1966 Black and White Ball, a masquerade hosted by the author in 1966 at the iconic Plaza Hotel, as a starting point, they dipped into the
Stuart Vevers, creative director of Coach 1941, re-created ‘’the quintessential New York City loft’’ in a former warehouse on 12th Avenue, exactly at the 47th Street Warehouse, as a backdrop for his Fall/Winter 2020 collection. This was chapter two of his interpretation of ‘’stripped-back New York cool’’ to continue a narrative that started last season.
Prabal Gurung staged his Fall/Winter 2020 collection inside the legendary Rainbow Room, atop 30 Rockefeller Center – about as classic a Big Apple establishment as you can get. The designer set the tone of his collection, which, according to the note, was a celebration of New York City. ‘’New York is more than a place,
After the Spring/Summer 2020 collection, presented in Paris, inspired by the iconic Kate Moss, Zadig & Voltaire return to New York for the new season, this time inspired by the Seventies Rock’n’Roll. Major Seventies’ references ran through the collection. However, the designer didn’t just look to the more Bohemian, free-spirited side of the decade, but
