This year’s New York Fashion Week opens with New York Men’s Day budding designers and new collections from Proenza Schouler.
From September 9 through September 14, there will be more than 140 designer showcases in various locations around New York City.
Highlights of this season include two Italian fashion houses.
“Fendi and Marnie are coming to New York, which is extremely exciting. Fendi is doing a special 25th anniversary show to celebrate their baguette bags, and Marnie is bringing her spring/summer show … from Milan to New York ,” said Nora Milch, fashion director at W Magazine.
Milch said fewer large luxury American brands are participating.
“They have either moved to Paris and started showing or they show calendars. So, it has created a lot of room for enthusiasm and energy around young brands, young designers.”
One of the designers taking advantage of that change is Stephanie Crouchild, an indigenous fashion designer from Tsu Tina First Nation, who will make her debut at the Rise NYFW show on Friday.
Crouchchild’s brand, Eagletail Design, specializes in custom-made jackets using wool blankets from companies such as Hudson’s Bay and Pendleton.
“I really like to replicate the way I wear my clothes back, as you know, in the early 1800s through the early 1900s. And I turn it into my, like, modern, modern style, Crocchild said.
The designer started her business in 2020 after battling an alcohol addiction and using sewing as a form of treatment.
Crouchchild noted that many indigenous people were killed in colonial times from smallpox-infected blankets.
“To use blankets in the form that I do today, you know, is very powerful. And just that reminder, you know, that, yeah, that we’re still here.”
Tom Ford will kick off the week of the show after the cancellation of last season due to Covid.
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