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Recap of New York Men’s Day Spring Summer 2024 – Session 1

Every Fashion Week season, I eagerly await the start of New York Fashion Week with New York Men’s Day. This event, curated by Agentry PR, has always been a platform for showcasing new and emerging menswear designers. In Spring/Summer 2024, it did not disappoint, offering a stage to 10 promising designers. Join me as we delve into the morning and afternoon sessions and uncover some of my favorite…

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AGENDA ISSUE 18 - BLACK DESIGN COLLECTIVE . . . Digital and Print out now!!! This issue features Black fashion designers, NAACP Image Awards “Colors Behind the Look,” and more in this exciting issue of AGENDA. Melanie Wise, Udo Spreitzenbarth; cover models Coco Mitchell and AGENDA’s Fashion Whisperer Ty-Ron Mayes; SHROOMS the cookbook; Aaron Walton, AMATO Couture Menswear runway; Jurassic World Dominion, The 355; and Kaylene Peoples Fashion Talk complete the story of this 151-page book periodical! AGENDA has been putting a spotlight on Black design talent since their first feature with Black Design Collective’s Co-Founder, TJ Walker of Cross Colours in Issue 10. What followed was Geoff Duran (Issue 11), BDC Founder Angela Dean of Deanzign (Issue 12), Sergio Hudson (Issue 13), OTG Essentials by Okera Banks (Issue 14), Apotts and Epperson (Issue 15), Agnes Bethel Shoes (Issue 16), Renaldo Barnette (Issue 17); and Byron Lars, Octavius Terry-Sims of Groom, and Kevan Hall were all featured in AGENDA Collector’s Issue 3: Changemakers. The world was informed that there is a kaleidoscope of “all” colors that make up the artisans behind the clothes we love. After a long hiatus following the release of Issue 17, Couture Paper Doll’s, AGENDA’s contributing staff helped to create another packed issue, appropriately titled, “Black Design Collective,” a nod to this pioneering nonprofit, created to bring awareness, mentor, aid and elevate Black design talent. GET THE PRINT EDITION: https://lnkd.in/gKe48Kui DIGITAL VERSION: https://lnkd.in/g5Zau3d4 #agendamag #firsttakepr #klpublishinggroup #kaylenepeopleseditorinchief #blackdesigncollective #tyronmayes #stylisttyronmayes #cocomitchell #paperfaces #paperfacesllc (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiJTTZ0MWVQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Aaron Potts “When I started the collection, my aesthetic came from me designing pieces I liked for myself. My circle of friends are creatives and my girlfriends loved and wanted the clothes I designed for men. The collection started out as menswear, but there’s this practicality and usefulness to it and the women who saw the collection were able to personalise it. They would say: ‘OMG! I’m going to wear this jumpsuit, with a sports bra and a pair of high heels!’ or ‘OMG! I’m going to wear this pair of drop crotch pants with a crop tee and Birkenstocks!’ That’s really how it came to be. It wasn’t out of a trend, it was who responded to it.” - Aaron Potts, Fashion Designer, ‘A.Potts’. In its most commonly used form, the word “chic” means style with an aloof poise. There’s a distance and a coldness to traditional chicness; a chic woman would tell you “elegance is refusal.” Luckily for us ‘A.Potts’ designer Aaron Potts offers a different kind of chicness with his genderless collection: a beauty and freedom in dress that is friendly and warm - with an approachable elegance. Potts’s silhouettes are about as traditionally couture as they come - cocooning shapes, layered coats and full-skirted gowns - yet each reads joyous instead of staid. Chic in the kindest, most modern and elegant way. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #parsons #fashiongroupinternationalrisingstaraward #couturelike #craftsmanship #polysemoussymbolism #joyful #chic #effortless #elegant #silhouette #cocooningshapes #layeredcoats #fullskirtedgowns #label #apotts #aaronpotts https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch9OoMoMUMz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Calendario New York Fashion Week Otoño Invierno 2020 El calendario más caótico de las grandes cuatro semanas de la moda ha llegado. Y con esto quiero decir que no están ni la mitad de los desfiles.

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What to know about New York Fashion Week 2020 (September)? A review

This year's NYFW (New York Fashion Show) held in September did not reach the height of its predecessors. Still, it gifted us with a lot of beautiful designs and designers. 

Every year, New York Fashion Week (NYFW) gives us some of the best collections, looks, and more. This year was no exception either. Despite all the restrictions, NYFW managed to do what it does best, inspire people. The event was held both virtually and live, however, the number of attendees was reduced significantly due to COVID protocols. 

It was held between September 13 and September 17, each day filled with tons of events and entertainment. The overall fashion show reviews in New York for it were positive. A lot of brands and their owners attended the show, either in-person or digitally. These are: 

ADEAM

Aknvas (new)

Anne Klein (new)

Badgley 

Mischka 

Bibhu Mohapatra 

Bronx and Banco 

C+ plus series 

Chloe Gosselin 

Chocheng 

Christian Cowan 

Cinq a Sept 

Claudia Li

Christian Siriano 

Concept Korea 

Colleen Allen 

Dur Doux (new)

Faith Connection 

Frere (new)

Jason Wu 

Jonathan Simkhai 

Kim Shui 

Lavie by CK 

Libertine 

Marina Moscone 

Maxhose Africa 

Monse 

Nicole Miller 

Oqliq 

PHS

Private Policy 

Proenza Schouler 

Rasiavanessa

Rebecca Minkoff 

RVNG Couture 

Studio One Eighty Nine 

Tadashi Shoji 

Tanya Taylor 

Tiffany Brown Designs 

Veronica Beard 

Victor Glemaud 

Vivienne Hu

Eckhaus Latta 

Imitation of Christ (new)

Oak & Acorn (new)

VenicW (new)

Duncan (new)

Wiederhoeft (new)

Wolk Morais (new)

Despite some big and some new names that appeared on the show, some big brands were missing. These designers instead chose to launch their collections digitally and privately. These are: 

Tommy Hilfiger 

Michael Kors 

Marc Jacobs 

Gabriela Hearst 

Oscar de la Renta 

Proenza Schouler 

Tory Burch 

Prabal Gurung 

Jason Woo and Rebecca Minkoff hosted live shows in limited physical viewership. These were live streamed too, and thousands of people around the world watched models walk on the catwalk wearing those designs. A new platform was introduced earlier this year, Runway 360. This AR (Augmented Reality)/ VR (Virtual Reality) platform has features like 360-degree viewing capacity. Using this technology, designers can organize fashion shows, live streams, press conferences, etc. Brands, media personalities, and consumers can make use of this technical feature.  

On 13th September, Harlem's Fashion show hosted the 13th Annual Style Awards. The main hosts of this event were Kimberly Goldson, Kristian Loren, and Rich Fresh. This was made publicly available on September 19th, with lots of behind-the-scene actions, and Q&A's. Designer of the Year award was awarded to Kerby jean-Raymond (from Pyer Moss). 

Some other notable changes were also made, with a focus on gender-fluid and menswear designers. 10 of them were noticed during this event, which is a preview of the fashion industry's changing dynamics and preferences. These designers are mentioned below: 

Apotts 

Carter Young

David Hart 

Future Lovers of Tomorrow 

Ka Wa Key 

Official Rebrand 

Stan 

Teddy Vonranson 

Timo Weiland 

Wataru Tominaga 

Of course, the NYFW was not as grand as it could have been due to obvious reasons. But still, it received positive fashion show reviews in New York and the rest of the world. We have to take a look at this year's top looks and designs in the next article. Until then, take care and stay in the know.

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Gender-neutral fashion: fluidity as freedom

New Post has been published on https://fashiondesigne.com/gender-neutral-fashion-fluidity-as-freedom/

Gender-neutral fashion: fluidity as freedom

Aileen Yu

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Thursday, ’04 February 2021

Is gender-neutral fashion an upcoming trend? Styles for Springtime 2021 saw a growing number of big companies champion gender-fluid, unisex or even polysexual fashions with Marc Jacob’s “Heaven” capsule plus fluid collections from creative designers Balenciaga and Stella McCartney. “Marc has long been a who trust that clothing itself is just not inherently gendered, rather modern society norms have previously established certain garments are for many people, (we) see a lot of hope in today’s youngsters, that these limiting ‘rules’ are usually increasingly no longer relevant, having a renewed courage to be yourself, ” Eric Marechalle, the particular CEO of Marc Jacobs International told WWD within a recent report.

A 2018 study by The Advocate discovered that thirty-three percent of those in Gen-Z identify as something apart from exclusively heterosexual, the highest number of any kind of generation up. A quick browse Tik Tok shows that the particular hashtag for polysexuality offers almost 10, 000 sights and is still growing since content creators produce a lot more videos surrounding polysexual identification and polysexual people. Upon Instagram, the hashtag provides over 1, 000, 1000 tags.

Gender-fluid appears took over New York Men’s Time SS21

During the most recent New York Men’s Time, gender-fluid fashion became one of the greatest highlights of the digital event. Apotts, Ka Wa Key, Standard Rebrand, and Wataru Tominaga all presented gender liquid collections. Apotts’ collection communicated the message that no matter race or gender, everyone can enjoy playing dress up. To get MI Leggett of Formal Rebrand, gender-fluid fashion is never a trend, but the whole antithesis of their brand GENETICS. This season, the designer, who seem to identifies as non-binary plus uses they/them/their pronouns, concentrated their collection on anti-waste urgency and social unrest throughout history.

A voice for the voiceless through a prism of fluidity

In many areas of the world, the LGBT plus gender-neutral community is still fulfilled with hostility and assault. Gucci‘s global campaign Agreement For Change released the particular short film ‘The Future is certainly Fluid’ —which premiered throughout Sundance Film Festival 2019— as a companion to The Abnormal Report, a biannual document on and by Gen Unces. The voices in the movie represent this generation’s tenaciousness, curiosity, empathy, optimism plus hope, redefining and symbolizing the world through a prism associated with fluidity. In the video, a single Gen Zer expressed, “I hold myself responsible to keep advocating and fighting for your rights of trans plus non-binary youth because You will find the privilege to. ” “If we start seeing this particular fluid approach we can start to see all the barriers open up, ” another Gen Z recommend added.

Genderless style: East Asia’s social demonstration

Avant-garde plus genderless fashion has had a lengthy heritage in Japan, initiated by revered designers Telles des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto. So it’s not surprising that will genderless youth fill the road of Harajuka, the capital’s hub of subculture plus streetwear trends. Since 2016, Tokyo’s youth movement continues to be rejecting ideas of style defining sexuality through makeup, clothes and Instagram filter systems that draws from Japan anime’s fluid beauty requirements. In this documentary, i-D Journal met the individuals at the rear of Tokyo’s most boundary pressing scene. Yutaro told audiences, “sometimes I’m jealous associated with girls when it comes to fashion. They could wear trousers and dresses without being told off designed for wearing boy’s clothes. ” A unisex girl, Satsuki, further stated, “since I actually started wearing genderless clothing, I’ve come to realise that the world-view can be totally transformed through fashion. ”

According to Mintel, a London-based market research company, in 2019 K-beauty exports have grown to 2 . sixty four billion US dollars. Popular South Korean media continuously promotes the ‘perfect feminine appearance’ which usually includes a porcelain complexion, luxuriant long curly hair, lots of makeup, form-fitting gowns paired with stilettos. Based on the NPR article, “South Korean Women ‘Escape The Corset’ And Reject Their State’s Beauty Ideals”, women within the nation are rebelling along with genderless fashion, cutting their head of hair and wearing no make-up as a feminist protest contrary to the patriarchal gaze.

Photos: Pexels by Lhairton Kelvin Costa, courtesy of Agentry PR, Gui Gomes

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Men’s Wear Flies its Freak Flag

“I don’t think there really is a right time to start a business,” Carter Altman said Monday before his presentation at the kickoff of New York Fashion Week: Men’s, an event that nowadays barely merits the grandiose name. For a start, it covers little more than three days, features fewer designers than in any recent season (under two dozen) and has a single headline designer in Todd Snyder.

Mr. Snyder, whatever his considerable chops, is hardly the household name Tom Ford is. And Mr. Ford, who is as of Jan. 1 the chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the group that schedules and oversees the twice yearly gathering, will hold his fashion show on Friday in Los Angeles.

Mr. Altman has a point, though. The time is never optimal for a fashion start-up in a town like New York, with its astronomical rents, dwindling ranks of wholesale suppliers and a garment district that big tech swallowed whole. Seen through that lens, that independent designers would still elect to show here says as much perhaps about native pluck as skill, and maybe also a kind of indomitable naïveté.

Mr. Altman, whose label is called Carter Young, is 21 and newly graduated from New York University. Though he has no retail clients yet (his work sells online at carteryoung.shop), what he does have is talent and a precociously developed viewpoint. For his presentation at New York Men’s Day, he edited his ideas down to a tight grouping of deceptively simple and durable stuff: a cropped and boxy patch-pocket sports coat, a slightly off-kilter denim barn jacket, some letter carrier trousers, a coat upcycled from the same fabric used to make uniforms for the California Highway Patrol.

There was a so-called vegan suit, rough cowhide belts intended to shred over time and get gnarly, and an Eisenhower jacket and shirting embroidered with silhouettes drawn from the artist Kristin Beaver’s “Sidekick Portraits.”

Ms. Beaver’s images were first created in the decaying, yeasty and intensely creative city that was the ruined Detroit of the early aughts. The loft building where New York Fashion Week: Men’s takes place is the kind of rough industrial holdout that abounded in Manhattan in the 1970s, when areas of this city looked an awful lot like the ruin Detroit would soon become. That loft building is now hemmed on all sides by glass-walled skyscrapers that form the Hudson Yards development. Although the gleaming cynical hulk of that mall was just across 10th Avenue from the loft building, it felt light years away from the raw aspirations on view during New York Men’s Day.

In reality, there may be few commercial prospects available in a landscape dominated by malls and mass chain retailers for independent designers like Pablo Leon, a young Mexican-American designer whose family members worked as undocumented field hands in California’s Central Valley.

“As Mexicans we had to be invisible there,” Mr. Leon said before a show that, as in the work of Willy Chavarria, a powerful Mexican-American designer also from Fresno, fused hothouse theatricality, ruffs and surplices and other ecclesiastical elements with some sartorial markers of gang culture. “I was invisible being brown and being gay. The problem is how to be seen.”

The customary mobs turned out for New York Men’s Day in their usual wonderful glad rags — and following them, the predictable packs of street style photographers. Often it is hard to say which is more compelling, what’s on the runway and what drifts in off the street. Just as challenging is imagining what will become of the mountains of images captured of people like Paris Warren, who walked eastward on Monday from 10th Avenue into a throng of professional shutterbugs and at least one reporter wielding his iPhone camera.

What was it we were each so eager to document? For me, it was the droll way Mr. Warren, a creative director and stylist, both updated and queered the look of macho ’70s blaxploitation film stars — the leather jacket with floppy lapels stitched in white, the snuggly mock turtleneck and the snugly knotted durag made from an Hermès scarf.

Moments like that generate their own brand of ephemeral magic. You want to bottle it just as you hope someone may find a way to harness the reverberant energy of labels like Official Rebrand, whose collection was so rife with wacko references — graffiti, sloganeering, kiddie sketches and femme-butch dualities — that if the designer, MI Leggett, omitted the kitchen sink it must have been an oversight.

You hope that the Timo Weiland, Donna Kang and Alan Eckstein, the talents behind the label Timo Weiland, can finally make a paying career out of plumbing the depths of their youthful nerdiness. (“I played piano and had my hair permed into an Asian Afro when I was a kid,” Ms. Kang explained.) You want their assortment of separates in Necco wafer colors and fireplug red suits to wear for shocking the judge at your pretrial hearing to find their way into the wider world.

You wish for someone like Aaron Potts, who started APOTTS to “fill my life with beauty, creativity, passion, direction and people I love and who inspire me” after being laid off from a job he loathed, he said, to connect with backers able to support a vision for a fashion future in which people dress, if they care to, like a cross between a Mormon Elder and a roadie for Sun Ra’s Arkestra.

In a recent Instagram post promoting an evening discussion on “The Search for Signs of Intelligence in Men’s Fashion” (held at the CORE Club, that YMCA for the 1 percent), the Airmail columnist Richard David Story decried what he judged to be the sorry state of men’s fashion and the sheer madness of what he sees on the runways of New York, Milan, Paris and also the pages of The New York Times.

Conundrums and outrages of the sort that fuss Mr. Story are at the heart of events, however uncommercial, like New York Fashion Week: Men’s, and of what remains of fashion creativity in this town. In reality, there is no shortage of opportunities for men to drag up in three-piece suits or stuffy French-cuff shirts or the general attire of “Businessman Realness.”

But why bother? For all that ails it, New York fashion, including that for men, could use a healthy a dose of “Funny Face” medicine. “Banish the black!” as Kay Thompson famously intoned in that 1957 cinema classic. “Think pink!”

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Aaron Potts “I love what I call ‘parachute cloth’. It’s a cotton and synthetic blend, and it’s airy and crisp and season-less, doesn’t wrinkle, and it’s waterproof. I did a photo shoot on the beach where I had one of my models get in the ocean in the outfit, and the clothes never got wet. I would say that is my favourite.” - Aaron Potts, Fashion Designer, ‘A.Potts’. Potts started his fall 2022 collection with a limitation. He wanted to make clothes inspired by skin tones, from pale blush to jet-black. Potts’ collections seems to defy the laws of physics. Parachute pants stand next to large, bulbous dresses. Blouses flare out and wrap around themselves in a wave. The DNA of an ‘A.Potts’ piece lies in a certain ineffable combination of avant-garde design, couture-like craftsmanship and polysemous symbolism. It can be difficult to put a finger on the brand. How could it be easy to define when there are so many details, pulled from so many different creative trades infused into each garment? Although born and raised in Detroit, Potts describes his upbringing as “very Southern”. After studying at ‘Parsons' Potts would go on to design for names like ‘Escada’, ‘St. John’s Knits’ and Tamara Mellon before starting his own Brooklyn-based label, ‘New York'. Though the brand ‘A.Potts’ was only born in 2018, it quickly won the ‘Fashion Group International Rising Star’ award for the all-gender category in 2020. As his legacy continues to grow, Potts’ long-term goals include being self-sufficient, sustainable and providing a nurturing place to work since that wasn’t necessarily available to him during some parts of his own career. And, of course, Potts wants to continue making genderless designs that are genuinely joyful to wear. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #parsons #fashiongroupinternationalrisingstaraward #couturelike #craftsmanship #polysemoussymbolism #joyful #chic #effortless #elegant #silhouette #cocooningshapes #layeredcoats #fullskirtedgowns #label #apotts #aaronpotts https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch9OhHZsoiD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Gender-neutral fashion: fluidity as freedom

New Post has been published on https://fashiondesigne.com/2021/02/05/gender-neutral-fashion-fluidity-as-freedom/

Gender-neutral fashion: fluidity as freedom

Aileen Yu

|

Thursday, ’04 February 2021

Is gender-neutral fashion an upcoming trend? Styles for Springtime 2021 saw a growing number of big companies champion gender-fluid, unisex or even polysexual fashions with Marc Jacob’s “Heaven” capsule plus fluid collections from creative designers Balenciaga and Stella McCartney. “Marc has long been a who trust that clothing itself is just not inherently gendered, rather modern society norms have previously established certain garments are for many people, (we) see a lot of hope in today’s youngsters, that these limiting ‘rules’ are usually increasingly no longer relevant, having a renewed courage to be yourself, ” Eric Marechalle, the particular CEO of Marc Jacobs International told WWD within a recent report.

A 2018 study by The Advocate discovered that thirty-three percent of those in Gen-Z identify as something apart from exclusively heterosexual, the highest number of any kind of generation up. A quick browse Tik Tok shows that the particular hashtag for polysexuality offers almost 10, 000 sights and is still growing since content creators produce a lot more videos surrounding polysexual identification and polysexual people. Upon Instagram, the hashtag provides over 1, 000, 1000 tags.

Gender-fluid appears took over New York Men’s Time SS21

During the most recent New York Men’s Time, gender-fluid fashion became one of the greatest highlights of the digital event. Apotts, Ka Wa Key, Standard Rebrand, and Wataru Tominaga all presented gender liquid collections. Apotts’ collection communicated the message that no matter race or gender, everyone can enjoy playing dress up. To get MI Leggett of Formal Rebrand, gender-fluid fashion is never a trend, but the whole antithesis of their brand GENETICS. This season, the designer, who seem to identifies as non-binary plus uses they/them/their pronouns, concentrated their collection on anti-waste urgency and social unrest throughout history.

A voice for the voiceless through a prism of fluidity

In many areas of the world, the LGBT plus gender-neutral community is still fulfilled with hostility and assault. Gucci‘s global campaign Agreement For Change released the particular short film ‘The Future is certainly Fluid’ —which premiered throughout Sundance Film Festival 2019— as a companion to The Abnormal Report, a biannual document on and by Gen Unces. The voices in the movie represent this generation’s tenaciousness, curiosity, empathy, optimism plus hope, redefining and symbolizing the world through a prism associated with fluidity. In the video, a single Gen Zer expressed, “I hold myself responsible to keep advocating and fighting for your rights of trans plus non-binary youth because You will find the privilege to. ” “If we start seeing this particular fluid approach we can start to see all the barriers open up, ” another Gen Z recommend added.

Genderless style: East Asia’s social demonstration

Avant-garde plus genderless fashion has had a lengthy heritage in Japan, initiated by revered designers Telles des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto. So it’s not surprising that will genderless youth fill the road of Harajuka, the capital’s hub of subculture plus streetwear trends. Since 2016, Tokyo’s youth movement continues to be rejecting ideas of style defining sexuality through makeup, clothes and Instagram filter systems that draws from Japan anime’s fluid beauty requirements. In this documentary, i-D Journal met the individuals at the rear of Tokyo’s most boundary pressing scene. Yutaro told audiences, “sometimes I’m jealous associated with girls when it comes to fashion. They could wear trousers and dresses without being told off designed for wearing boy’s clothes. ” A unisex girl, Satsuki, further stated, “since I actually started wearing genderless clothing, I’ve come to realise that the world-view can be totally transformed through fashion. ”

According to Mintel, a London-based market research company, in 2019 K-beauty exports have grown to 2 . sixty four billion US dollars. Popular South Korean media continuously promotes the ‘perfect feminine appearance’ which usually includes a porcelain complexion, luxuriant long curly hair, lots of makeup, form-fitting gowns paired with stilettos. Based on the NPR article, “South Korean Women ‘Escape The Corset’ And Reject Their State’s Beauty Ideals”, women within the nation are rebelling along with genderless fashion, cutting their head of hair and wearing no make-up as a feminist protest contrary to the patriarchal gaze.

Photos: Pexels by Lhairton Kelvin Costa, courtesy of Agentry PR, Gui Gomes