NYFW WHETHER YOU'RE THERE OR NOT
in 6 points
Friends. New York Fashion Week has started again and despite the fact that I'm not there (I didn't feel like cold and snow and what did I find today in hometown Haarlem? Exactly, cold and snow), I'm keeping a close eye on everything. I'll catch you up. You can pretend you were there. If you want to, of course.
1. The first show was in LA
Fashion weeks are the most predictable weeks of the year. Chanel is always the last Tuesday in Paris at the Grand Palais. After that is Dior's resee and then the fashion crowd rushes to the Tuileries for Valentino's show. If you've done a few rounds of fashion weeks, you know exactly what is when. And usually also where. Tommy's show was always on Monday in New York. In winter, the location was Park Avenue Armory on Park Avenue, during September Fashion Week always on the pier. Last year, the location suddenly moved to a pier on the other side of the city and now Tommy has moved the whole event to the other side of the country. Where it was warm. Look Tommy, we speak the same language. And this I want all of that.
2. Maartje Verhoef was of course also Team Tommy and opened her real fashion week in New York by being the first to walk the catwalk of Brock. I must honestly say that I had never heard of the brand and really came across it through Maartje, but I think it's great. Go take a look.
3. Then Vetements. You should know that Vetements is the cool label du jour. Last fashion week they showed in a department store in Paris, now they were suddenly in New York. I'm going to say something that will make a lot of snooty fashion journalists look at me with disdain, but I think the clothes are weird. Correction: too expensive weird clothes. Photographed on weird people. Acting weird for the sake of being weird. And now everyone can go wild with terms like: look at the concept, but it's just weird. And it doesn't lift you up. Like that.
4. No afterparty. That was the theme at Alexander Wang. Fortunately, the show was sponsored by Peroni and everyone got a beer before the show started. Wang, you should know, is the king of after parties. I will never forget the party where the catwalk opened and pole dancers did their dances and you could grab your bottle of champagne from a bathtub. Lady Gaga was there, Jamilla Hoogenboom, Micha Emmering, and me. But now the theme was ‘No Afterparty’. The models wore that on their stockings and Alexander himself on his T-shirt. I want that. I thought it was a beautiful collection. If you like black, that is. And team Ibiza: good news. The fringe is back from being gone. So you can still wear your island uniform in the Netherlands.
5. Of course, there were political statements. At one show, that worked a little better than at the other. At Calvin Klein, David Bowie's ‘This is not America’ sounded very nice and subtle. Jeremy Scott, being eclectic as he is, went all out and started the show with Gigi Hadid wearing pants with the head of Jesus depicted on them, continued with T-shirts showing the number of people sitting in Congress (the message behind that also escaped me for a moment) and also pressed upon us that we should not glorify idols. Wookeee, Jeremy.
6. Season of the suit. The suit seems to be the thing this fall and I'm in love with Tibi's version of the suits. What I also liked is that Sanne de Roo walked the runway. You know, she from Holland's Next Top Model.
More tomorrow, girls. Now let's throw some snowballs.
