It’s been a while since New York was the main character in any costume drama, a while since it starred as anything other than a problem: abandoned, messy, crime-ridden, economically challenged.
But as New York Fashion Week began, the city’s designers were telling a different story.
One about the city as a place of chaos, movement and dreams.
“I was thinking about the inspiration that New York has given me, and it made me want to explore New York style archetypes, and my own personal New York style archetypes, from when I came to the city for my first job,” Stuart Vevers said in a preview before his lively 10th-anniversary Coach show, held in the heart of Midtown Manhattan at the New York Public Library.
They were part of the New York of his mind, a place where people come from elsewhere (Mr. Vevers is British) and find their tribe, which isn’t necessarily defined by geography any more — by uptown or downtown, east or west — but rather by state of mind.
Persons:
It’s, “, ” Stuart Vevers, Vevers, slouchy pantsuits
Organizations:
York, New York Public Library, Pyramid Club
Locations:
New York, York, New, Midtown Manhattan