Smaller shows, safety precautions, and a new guard of diverse designers mark the in-person return of New York Fashion Week for spring 2022.
collection on Thursday at Bryant Park, riffing on the days when the fashion week big top was there. “I always feel optimistic. With everything that’s happened, it’s a rebirth collectively and individually.”— from the Council of Fashion Designers of America and IMG.“It’s even more important to be exclusive at this time.
What is truly remarkable this season is the larger slate of diverse talent on the runway, including Smith, Peter Do, Kenneth Nicholson, Theophilio’s Edvin Thompson, Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka of House of Aama, Victor Glemaud and Sergio Hudson. The Los Angeles designer’s first runway show was February 2020, then the world shut down. So this week is a second chance. Instead of showing spring 2022, on Thursday at Spring Studios he will show his fall 2021 collection of sleek, sexy power clothes with jolts of color, and it will be released and available to shop right afterward.
“My fight has always been this, that Americana has been so much informed by the colonial lens,” said Gurung, a Nepalese American. “So to see all this, even the new calendar with all these designers of color, it feels exciting. And I hope everyone’s shows are different because that’s what fashion needs.”
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