HEADS UP: It's New York Fashion Week, baby. Spring-Summer 2020 to be exact. New York Fashion Week: The Shows, Style 360 NYFW, Art Hearts Fashion and others. Most days until the end, expect a photo(s) of the day. After the whole shebang is over, we will share further insights (words and pictures).
DAMO WANG SS20
In his Spring-Summer 2020 collection, Damo Wang carefully balances the Chinese culture of WU XIA with a contemporary zeitgeist.. Images courtesy of Nowfashion.
TAORAY WANG SS20
Taoray Wang Spring-Summer 2020. Photos by Francisco Valdez.
Some shows on deck today, DAY 4: Collapse 14, Tanya Taylor, Staud, Lou Dallas, LaQuan Smith, Mansur Gavriel, Raisavanessa, Sies Marjan, Tibi, Nicole Miller, Jason Wu Collection, Prabal Gurung, Tommy Hilfiger, Pyer Moss
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Some of the players on Day 3: Georgine, Francesca Liberatore, Paul Andrew, Lacoste, Adam Lippes, Jill Stuart, Taoray Wang, Creatures of the Wind, Romeo Hunte, Ryan Roche, Yuna Yang, Tibi, Son Juan Wan, Dion Lee, Banana Republic, Christian Siriano, Johnathan Simkhai, A Detacher, Simon Miller, Area, Mac Duggal, Julianna Bass, Sheguang Hu, Alexander Wang, Laurence & Chico, Mason Sylvester
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I am silently quoting Nelly:
It's getting hot in here, so hot, so take off all your clothes.
At Skylight Clarkson, where a number of Fall 2017 New York Fashion Week: The Shows are being staged, it is sweltering.
Alas, a thousand times alas, those responsible for temperature control did not take into account that all of the equipment necessary to make the warehouse operational would generate as much heat as that emanating from the hundreds of bodies also therein, therefore making it absolutely imperative to install air conditioning. Even though it is winter.
So everyone is overheated. I am especially so, squeezed in on a secondary front row of the Georgine show.
It's getting hot in here, so hot, so take off all your clothes.
From the Fall 2017 Georgine collection. Photo by VW.
I am not certain why this show is so crowded. Is it because designer Georgine Ratelband is inspired by famous hotels and the mythical hotels of song and film titles: The Ritz, The Bates Motel, Hotel California?
Perhaps, it is because the secret is out about the designer. That GR is quite the little craftsman. Or is it craftswoman. Craftsperson?
In any case, she can sew well or has the eye for detail to direct the seamstresses to so well. Yet, her craft goes deeper than that. She seems to possess an innate understanding of the characteristics of fabric.
This is dawning on me as I observe some dresses and skirts in what appears to be a lightweight silk or satin. Forgive me, I am unable to say which hotel they represent because I am too squashed in to consult the run of show (show program). Plus, I am trying to capture some decent images on my mobile phone.
What is apparent is that the designer understands that this particular fabric must be cut in a particular way to produce the undulating effect achieved when one is in transit. I should add that GR is not trying to reinvent the wheel; she merely gives it a fine polish.
That alone is worth one’s momentary discomfort.
TAORAY WANG
From the Taoray Fall 2017 collection. Photos from Getty Images.
DESIGNERS can't resist gender interplay: the idea of mixing and matching, comparing and contrasting, merging and marrying feminine and masculine shapes fabrics, etc.
This is the treatment, as it regards the suit's long history, that Taoray Wang designer Wang Tao recommends for her modern, professional woman. In this latest collection, the designer also further seals her reputation for craft and construction.
Meanwhile, she makes those aforesaid observations in expected ways. For instance, demure lace blouses are paired with rather bold-shouldered, assertive jackets.
Seamlessly, WT also takes that notion sideways a bit, creating winning silhouettes. More specifically, a manly burgundy jacket poured into an slightly undulating girlee black maxi skirt with a slit. An olive wrap dress that once upon a time was a trenchcoat is shortened, wrapped, bedazzled at the hem with asymmetry and firmly belted. A boatneck black lace top with panel down the front, simulating a tie included.
On deck today, Day 4: Victoria Beckham, Asia Fashion Collective, Public School, Rosetta Getty,Tome, Elizabeth Kennedy, Chloe Gosselin, Hood By Air, Sies Marjan, Tracy Reese, Diane von Furstenberg, Beaufille, J. Crew, Sandy Liang, Lujin Zhang, Vivienne Hu, Leanne Marshall, Jenny Packham, Prabal Gurung, Gypsy Sport, Altuzarra, Custo Barcelona, Marcel Ostertag, Namilia, Anthony Rubio, Madeline Stuart, Ana Ono, Temraza, House of Byfield, Saku New York, Willfredo Gerardo, MonnaLisa, Wanda Beauchamp, Lulu Et Gigi, Emma Viedma, Rene & Immanuel Clothing, Vasilije Kovacev
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From the Jurjis Jarvis Spring 2017 collection. Photos by VW.
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Some of the players from Day 5: Jurjis Jarvis, Hale Bob, Ibrahim Vukel, Sanja Bobar, Anniesa Hasibuan, Irina Vitjaz, Katty Xiomara, Taoray Wang, Serena Williams Signature Statement by HSN, Jeremy Scott, Rosie Assouline, Verdad, Barbara Tfank, Proenza Schouler, Ji Oh, Lu Yang by Yang Lu, 3.1 Phillip, Leane Marshall, Andy Hilfiger, David Yurman, Lela Rose, Carolina Herrera, Yeohlee, Rag & Bone, DKNY, Thom Browne, Zero + Maria Cornejo, Libertine, Vivienne Tam, Zac Posen
FOR every Vivienne Tam, Donna Karan and Zac Posen, there are scores of Jurjis Jarvises.
Fashion designers with small businesses but a huge commitment to their craft. Seriously on their grind. JJ presented his Spring 2017 collection yesterday, Day 5 of New York Fashion Week.
"Electric nou . veau riche" is a capsule effort of men's and women's casual, after-5 and evening looks. Orange and gold are primary co!ors. JJ, who studied at the F.I.T., has a winner on his hands ... More shortly.
KATTY XIOMARA
SERENA WILLIAMS SIGNATURE STATEMENT
TAORAY WANG
On deck today, Day 6: Chiara Boni La Petite Robe, Zang Toi, Raul Penaranda, Miguel Vieira, frontrow, Tumbler & Tipsy by Michael Kuluva, Art Hearts Fashion, Tory Burch, Vera Wang, Rodarte, Sally LaPointe, Alice & Olivia, Dennis Basso, Gabriela Hearst, Monique Lhuillier, Coach, Mansur Gavriel, Reem Acra, Brandon Maxwell, Narciso Rodriguez, KITH, Cristina Ottaviano, Julianna Bass, John Paul Ataker, Sally LaPointe, Come Tu Es, Jasmine Chong, Beaufille, Nanette Lepore, D'Marsh Couture, Betty and Veronica by Rachel Antonoff, Ikumi Lanyu
Follow us on YouTube at WRIGHT WREPORT, Twitter at @WrightWreport and on Instagram at @thewrightwreport for additional coverage of New York Fashion Week. Visit the following websites to learn more about NYFW, including show information, installations, videos and livestreaming:
In his Spring-Summer 2020 collection, Damo Wang carefully balances the Chinese culture of WU XIA with a contemporary zeitgeist.. Images courtesy of Nowfashion.
Taoray Wang Spring-Summer 2020. Photos by Francisco Valdez.
In his Spring-Summer 2020 collection, Damo Wang carefully balances the Chinese culture of WU XIA with a contemporary zeitgeist.. Images courtesy of Nowfashion.
Taoray Wang Spring-Summer 2020. Photos by Francisco Valdez.
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