My Best Of: NYFW
This season’s New York Fashion Week brought lots of attitude, opulence, edge and weirdness. And I loved it all. Each Fall/Winter Ready To Wear collection displayed it’s own rejection of traditional fashion and embracement of absurdity. Here are my favorite runway moments…
Coach By Stuart vevers
The All-American brand presented an intimate ode to New York’s classics: leather, knits and practical but chic silhouettes. The collection was the perfect blend between severity and playfulness. Utilitarianism meets Polly Pocket Core: a match made in heaven.
Tori burch
“I don’t think women want rules anymore.”
Burch blurs the guidelines of perfection with this collection. She exposes the beauty of vulnerability and deconstructs the put-togetherness of feminine fashion. Visual (and adorable) shape wear, barely fastened buckles and closures, asymmetry, and backwards styling all play into a new unapologetic age of fashion.
Priscavera
A party girl brand coming out in the daylight. A collection packed with corsets, funky plaids, sheers and effortlessness. It’s giving morning after vibes, as if models wore last night’s accessories with their boyfriend’s pajamas to the office. Prisca V. Franchetti, I absolutely adore you.
Rodarte
Wednesday Core is sticking! Kate and Laura Mulleavy gave us all the mystical gothic fairy vibes. The collection explores the beauty of darkness by creating an illuminating vampy, black swan-like, Victorian fantasy. The show featured lots of feathers, lace, sequins and ruffled tool for all the girly goths.
Elena Velez
“Like the new heroin chic from the Midwest”…“from the mindset of a maker prioritizing functionality and practicality and urgency beyond perfection or beauty.”
This beautiful collection explored female rage and revolution and drew inspiration from the radically plain and stereotypical unglamorousness of trucker culture, prairie wives and midwestern women. The show exposed female grit, exploitation and discomfort within fashion. A true industry wake up call.
Sandy Liang
A chef’s kiss blend of all the ‘core’s: (cottage + ballet + doll + academia) x major attitude = perfection. The collection found balance between innocence and sensuality. Many looks were complete with ballet flats and featured delicate bows, leg warmers, sashes and shawls. Muah.
Dion Lee
Featuring barely there minis, crops, knits, and shaved shearling. Classic Dion Lee materialism that we all know and love.
LaQuan Smith
Another stunning collection made for the glamorous, center of attention girlies (me). Featuring fun tailoring, draping and twists, it explores the partnership between sophistication and sexiness. You can be hot in all parts of your life babe.
Nadeem Khan
The runway transformed into a 20’s NYC party covered in opulence, sparkle and over the top glam. It featured lots of feathers, fringe, beads and eye catching embellishments. I need it all.
Christian Cohen
It’s giving circus performer chic in the absolute best way.
AREA
A (literally) fresh and fun collection featuring non-traditional shapes, vibrancy and spunk. Yes.
NYFW’s collections satisfied (most of) my high expectations of expressive, dramatic and weird as f$$k pieces. As we’re well into London Fashion Week and the streak continues, I can’t wait for all the rest of fashion month will bring. Comment your favs!
Love, Izabel
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