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NEW YORK | STYLE | 03.01.2010 | Katrina Szish. New York Fashion Week proved a poignant perambulation through emotional highs and lows. Alexander McQueen’s tragic death weighed heavily on our minds and hearts, however the emotional outpouring of respect and love from fellow designers and the industry en masse brought a rare sense of oneness and camaraderie to the typically stoic and often cold-shouldered fashion crowd.
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Fashion for Relief,
a model tribute to McQueen |
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Tia Cibani opened her Ports 1961 show with a moment of silence honoring the designer; Betsey Johnson sent an edgy pair of models down the catwalk with a rustic sign bearing the words “Long Live McQueen;” Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief Haiti fundraising fashion show ended with a supermodel group tribute – including Campbell, Karen Elson plus five others – wearing designs McQueen had donated to the cause just days before his death.
The bittersweet sentiment continued, with show-goers well aware that the Fall 2010 collections were an historic occasion, the last hurrah of Bryant Park, having been the home of New York Fashion Week since 1994. Yet there remained a palpable excitement in the air – whether it was the thrill of seeing the talent of new designers poised on the edge of superstardom (Prabal Gurung, Christian Cota, Joseph Altuzarra), or simply the notion that fashion is moving onward and upward, as Tommy Hilfiger eloquently stated at the close of his show, the last ever in the grand Tent. This industry thrives on change, so though the week may have been steeped in emotion, there was a collective understanding that the show must go on.
And go on the shows did. Designers delivered runways-full
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