THIS New York Fashion Week marks a new era - and that’s largely down to the gap in the schedule that once belonged to Donna Karan (Vera Wang even sweetly tweeting that it wasn’t the same without her). The designer’s eponymous line is no longer and neither does she sit at the helm of DKNY. That job fell to Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, the Public School label-appointed designers who took on the role in April. Today, it was over to them, Karan sitting in the audience to watch on as the baton was officially passed and a new chapter began.
And it’s one that left behind some of the more obvious and novelty translations of New York that we’d seen before, in favour of something that meant business, professionalism and polish at its core. These clothes weren’t for the kids of NYC, slogan-smothered or riffing on Big Apple anecdotes, they were for women.
Pinstripe and deconstructed tailoring, it was precise but had an ease, these were clothes (crisp white shirts, boxy shapes, utilitarian buckles and elongated blazers that doubled up into being dresses, there were others later that were prim and sharp in school skirt pleats) that would actually accompany your lifestyle and all the facets of it.
With thanks to Capstar Chauffeurs