Plus: Fashion critic Cathy Horyn reviews shows from Christopher John Rogers, Collina Strada, and Brandon Maxwell.
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Courtesy of Marc Jacobs, Courtesy of Filippo Fior / GoRunway, Alessandro Viero on behalf of GoRunway
What was most striking about the models as they wandered around a room at the Chelsea while waiters passed drinks and small cakes was that Osmekhina was trying to imagine dressing in a post-clothing world. “I want to lose all the clothing,” she said. “It’s too much clothing for the planet. We need to stop.”That’s hardly what multibillion-dollar fashion brands want to hear, but at least young and daring independent designers are in a position to show us something new and possible. They’ve got nothing to lose. Ellen Hodakova Larsson, the Swedish designer who won last year’s LVMH Prize and does amazing work with existing materials, is another member of that group. She’s changing how we see clothes.
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