14 February 2022, Mumbai:
ABOUT New York Fashion Week
*New York Fashion Week, held in February and September of each year, is a semi-annual series of events (generally lasting 7–9 days) when international fashion collections are shown to buyers, the press, and the general public.
It is one of four major fashion weeks in the world, collectively known as the "Big 4", along with those in Paris, London, and Milan.[1][2]
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) created the modern notion of a centralized "New York Fashion Week" in 1993, although cities like London were already using their city's name in conjunction with the words fashion week in the 1980s.
NYFW is based on a much older series of events called "Press Week", founded in 1943.[3]
A centralized calendar of citywide events (including those affiliated with WME/IMG) is kept by the CFDA,[4] and was acquired from calendar founder Ruth Finley.[5] The economic impact of New York Fashion Week is estimated at $887 million.[6]
*The last time Shayne Oliver held a fashion show in New York, it was set to sounds of orgasms and sponsored by Pornhub. A lot has changed since 2017, when he put Hood by Air on hiatus, but the constant in Oliver’s work is his ability to electrify and challenge the fashion system.
And, boy, did he ever do that with a performance of new music with Arca and a presentation of new clothing at The Shed last night. How to explain exactly what we saw over smoke, scaffolding, and a sculpture of Oliver melting into a platform?
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Having followed his work since the mid-2010s, I am sure that the best part of his oeuvre is that it cannot be easily defined or digested. In the immediate minutes following the show, as fashion people, art- world glitterati, celebrities like Hunter Schafer and Evan Mock, and former HBA collaborators Luar’s Raul Lopez and Gypsy Sport’s Rio Uribe took the long escalator journey down to the street, several people texted me about what they had seen: “genius,” “arresting,” “disrespectful,” “too long,” “arduous,” and “WOW!” No uniform consensus congealed—and 12 hours later I’m still rehashing the models’ dripping clothing and Pat McGrath’s incredible floral makeup in my head.
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*Figures mentioned in the above article have been sourced from VOGUE & en.wikipedia.org article.
