Snapshots From Day 1 NYFW: Elie Tahari, Mark Gong, Blancore

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).

ELIE TAHARI SS20

Elie Tahari goes back to the future. To the '70s. Photos by Francisco Valdez.

MARK GONG SS20

Photos by Francisco Valdez.

With Spring-Summer 2020, the young designer continues the tradition he started in 2015 of taking his collection some interesting places. Photos by Francisco Valdez (left) and courtesy of Mark Gong.

BLANCORE SS20

In its debut at New York Fashion Week: The Shows, global contemporary label Blancore does meditations on that lifeblood, water. Images courtesy of Blancore.

On deck today, DAY 2: Damo Wang, I Love Pretty, Concept Korea, MRHUA MRSHUA by NiuNiu Chou, Carlos Campos, Vivienne Hu, Jeremy Scott, No Sesso, Telfar

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Visit the following websites to learn more about NYFW, including show information, installations, videos and livestreaming:

New York Fashion Week: The Shows
http://www.fashionweek.com/

Style 360 NYFW
http://www.style360nyfw.com/

Art Hearts Fashion
http://www.artheartsfashion.com/

From NYFW Fall 2017 Day 2: Hakan Akkaya’s Black Series Is Wonderful, Marvelous, Beautiful! ... Taking It to the Streets and More Refined Locales on Tour With Concept Korea Designers ... Get-Ups Assume Shape-Shifting Forms at Telfar ... Raul Penaranda’s Dame Will Take You Out

From the Raul Penaranda Fall 2017 collection. Photo courtesy of Hakan Akkaya.

Some of the players on Day 2: Dan Liu, Calvin Klein Collection, Theatre Products, Oday Shakar, Lanyu, Kate Spade New York, Yigal Azrouel, Hakan Akkaya, Tanya Taylor, Hellessy, LRS New York, Ohlin/D, Milly, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, Concept Korea, Cushnie et Ochs, Pamella Roland, Linder, Sachin & Babi, Chromat, Jason Wu, RTA, Vaishali S, Ellena De Luna, Dair by Odair, Club Monaco, Monse, Nicole Miller, Jeremy Scott, TELFAR

BY VW

TURKISH designer Hakan Akkaya delivered a mesmerizing mediation on black in a collection called “Freedom!”

Elegant: Men’s sequin tunic under a dinner jacket.
Inspired: Men’s plunging off-the-shoulder jumpsuit, revealing jacket, shirt and tie
Arresting: Women’s blouse with bell-shaped pleated sleeves and bare back.

And on and on and on … More later

CONCEPT KOREA

THE three designers deliver everything from reimagined cocktail frocks to streetwear turned sideways.

TELFAR

DECONSTRUCTED streetwear turned any which way but loose; fur motifs.

RAUL PENARANDA

THESE dames are dressed to kill.

On deck today, 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

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:

New York Fashion Week: The Shows
http://www.fashionweek.com/

Style Fashion Week
http://www.style360fashionweek.com/newyork

Art Hearts Fashion
http://www.artheartsfashion.com/

CAAFD
http://www.caafd.org/