WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.100 I love sweatpants, but I need to dress up I mean 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.600 Hey guys, I'm Alex video the style director of women's wear daily, 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:27.100 and I'm here with my team to be talkin about New York 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:30.500 Fashion Week get ended yesterday will be talkin about highlights 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:33.500 on Trend. This is been a very different Fashion Week for all 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:37.800 of us and mostly digital with very few physical shows. 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:41.400 First of all, I could see shows on my pajamas that is always 00:00:41.400 --> 00:00:45.600 a good thing and second of all I also like being like all the 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.600 different videos of designers and put out there. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.300 I had more time to think about it as an overall. 00:00:50.300 --> 00:00:52.200 What do you guys think about the experience? 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.900 Obviously One of a Kind very different than we've ever experienced, 00:00:55.900 --> 00:00:56.100 you know. 00:00:57.100 --> 00:01:00.300 We're here. We're not moving around the city and it's a different 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:03.000 energy, but it is still so inspiring to see these designers. 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.900 No turning out new Collections and missed everything that's 00:01:05.900 --> 00:01:09.700 happened and coming out with like Innovative digital in a couple 00:01:09.700 --> 00:01:14.400 in person, you know, so there was still a handful of videos 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:16.900 like you guys said but had a lot of emotion and a lot of 00:01:16.900 --> 00:01:20.900 soul put into them for me was excellent. 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:24.400 I felt that the videography the music the mood you really 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.500 translated something else that I have not seen from cage before. 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:33.200 Kate went into that, you know darkness and brought forth power 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.600 that way we're on like the opposite Spectrum. 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:38.200 Ulla Johnson. And since you really really wanted to celebrate 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.700 New York and that you can drop in like a very optimistic 00:01:42.700 --> 00:01:46.600 lens and I thought that was a cool contrast to other collection 00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:52.200 along those lines Allison Olivia also having that dance celebration 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.700 and a pop-up performance in New York City as one of the few Live 00:01:56.700 --> 00:01:59.400 Events to really celebrate New York. 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:03.000 It's Creative Energy its resilience, which I think is something 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:04.500 but we really need right. 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:08.700 Now. One of the main messages of the Season that was basically 00:02:08.700 --> 00:02:13.800 fund an eskipoo besom and I think we saw that everywhere. 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.800 I want to read a quote from Tom Ford the globe by God's always 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.500 affects fashion and to me this longing for a hopefully 00:02:21.500 --> 00:02:24.800 spring translates into somewhat classic relaxed close, 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:28.500 but close that make me smile close to have 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.400 A little bit of fun in so I do think that. 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.400 Really summarizes a lot of people's Vision. 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.100 What do you guys feel about that? 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:43.500 While a lot of people went for like very wearable clothes 00:02:43.500 --> 00:02:45.900 that you know, we're going to be living in in 6 months from 00:02:45.900 --> 00:02:47.700 now because we don't know where the world is going to be there 00:02:47.700 --> 00:02:50.100 still is that optimistic feel whether it's true, 00:02:50.100 --> 00:02:54.800 you know by Brett Cecil candy colors or some happy floral 00:02:54.800 --> 00:03:04.700 prints or you know, some Lounge design current reality calls 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:10.600 for the idea of comfort which we all saw but I appreciate 00:03:10.600 --> 00:03:15.300 it a lot of these kind of hopeful Outlook from designer 00:03:15.300 --> 00:03:17.100 with the fan to speed. 00:03:17.100 --> 00:03:21.100 Do you guys want to mention other similar light lightly upon 00:03:21.100 --> 00:03:23.700 trends that you saw in terms of cranesbury example 00:03:24.700 --> 00:03:26.400 Like you're saying Lafayette 148. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.200 They have those candy colored Hughes and I thought that was a really 00:03:29.200 --> 00:03:33.200 fun way injected into stop healers suiting where Zimmerman 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:39.900 did the super stunning out of this world and gowns that were 00:03:39.900 --> 00:03:43.400 elaborate and exaggerated and he's very vibrant colors and it 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:49.600 totally went towards us to This Feeling lyrics Jason blue. 00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:54.100 You saw that syncs with these bright Neons and you saw these 00:03:54.100 --> 00:04:00.100 really kind of trippy fun friends may be wildin and C+. 00:04:00.100 --> 00:04:03.900 It'll also speaking to color in a more pragmatic dressing 00:04:03.900 --> 00:04:06.100 kind of way Maria maasconi's collection, which 00:04:06.500 --> 00:04:10.900 Dining the season yet again, really brought forth more colors 00:04:10.900 --> 00:04:16.400 than we've ever seen in one of her selection about the sense 00:04:16.400 --> 00:04:19.800 of Discovery because one thing the New York Fashion Week that 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:23.200 we need to know this like the big names with missing know Michael 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:23.900 Kors no more. 00:04:23.900 --> 00:04:28.400 Jake has no crap Lauren know Tommy hilfiger's the big set of pillars 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:32.300 of the week were missing but these allowed to other names to come 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:35.800 up as being basically the discovery of New York Fashion with 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:37.500 your love it. 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:45.600 So you're following up looking at the visuals and a collection. 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:49.500 That was a very cool interpretation of the Natalie Portman 00:04:49.500 --> 00:04:53.700 film Annihilation. And that's not a brand that you know would 00:04:53.700 --> 00:04:57.000 have got his much of the spotlight if all of these visitors 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.400 were there and there's some Beauties about it is so nice to discover 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:05.600 new talents from Dunkin who does like corporate goth girl 2 00:05:06.500 --> 00:05:11.400 The more people at Grande Tyler, but I think you also we're 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:19.600 really feeling the afilia this week right that he is really 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:24.400 using this as a platform to set up enhance the voices of black 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:28.500 immigrants in America the use of color the use of the Jamaican flag 00:05:28.500 --> 00:05:32.400 Matisse as references and the way he's constructing 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:35.900 garments. It was really feminine and really fun idea. 00:05:35.900 --> 00:05:38.100 Was this so much energy happening. 00:05:38.100 --> 00:05:42.000 I mean, the other designers is his name is Neil Neil and I'm 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 going to I'm going to destroy the last name is gretzinger 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.100 and he's a designer of Neil. 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:52.700 He continued his exploration of queer sexuality through subversive 00:05:52.700 --> 00:05:53.800 control like instructions. 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:56.500 He was up cycling existing clothing. 00:05:56.500 --> 00:06:00.600 He went to a 99 cent store and Bud women's lingerie and torn 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.600 a tendon. She took like a woman's bra deconstructed 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.000 and embellish. We don't put your life. 00:06:06.500 --> 00:06:10.900 And the whole peas became like I barely there for the Glam top, 00:06:10.900 --> 00:06:15.700 I feel so energized by dark creativity and hunger of New York 00:06:15.700 --> 00:06:18.000 and I think the New York really? 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:23.500 Yes Discovery Fit people really wanna make a change and I think 00:06:23.500 --> 00:06:27.000 that the only thing you need is an idea basically and everything 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:27.500 will fall out. 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:33.100 No, the messaging for the season and this girl empowerment 00:06:33.100 --> 00:06:35.400 and everything that comes along with it. 00:06:35.400 --> 00:06:36.700 For instance Christian Cowan. 00:06:36.700 --> 00:06:46.300 He had a cast of 28 amazing artist activist like models all lgbtq 00:06:46.300 --> 00:06:53.100 activist and he get a collaboration with Lil Nas X and all of 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:56.100 the proceeds are being donated to the Loveland foundation 00:06:56.100 --> 00:07:00.700 in Atlanta, which is where it will not as described and everything 00:07:00.700 --> 00:07:03.200 about his collection, you know approaching it from the design 00:07:03.200 --> 00:07:07.300 to finishing was about to know celebrating individuality 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:11.900 celebrating fairness and that's such an important thing in this 00:07:11.900 --> 00:07:18.700 world right now konshens off Fashion Week in New York something 00:07:18.700 --> 00:07:22.200 that we would all love to be here again, 00:07:22.200 --> 00:07:25.900 more and more for next for the next season's and I do think 00:07:25.900 --> 00:07:29.700 that we do this is only the beginning that I feel that 00:07:30.300 --> 00:07:33.700 Fashion designers will use Fashion Week as a social and political 00:07:33.700 --> 00:07:45.100 platform for sure if designers flexibility and the freedom to 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:49.700 provide this brand messaging and say what they want in a different 00:07:49.700 --> 00:07:50.500 way for me. 00:07:50.500 --> 00:07:55.900 Kim swee had a very personal video with it was a documentary 00:07:55.900 --> 00:07:59.400 style video spotlighting the different quarantine experiences 00:07:59.400 --> 00:08:02.600 of friends and family, which I thought was really relatable 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:11.000 designer. Mohapatra Arena Ariana debose. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.400 She was a breakthrough star from Hamilton gives you such an idea 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:18.200 of how fashion it is connected to culture. 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:23.100 I also liked about the videos to not having a focus just on casting 00:08:23.100 --> 00:08:27.800 model you could really cast anyone that an alliance with your 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.100 Brand's just the way in the world. 00:08:30.400 --> 00:08:34.600 Has been moving these past few months you realize how important 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.100 it is for Brands to have a voice. 00:08:42.300 --> 00:08:45.900 Johnnie Taylor didn't show a collection but that was her message. 00:08:45.900 --> 00:08:52.800 You had a amazing show socially distant. 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:57.300 He gave voting vote Maps out to everybody and I think that's 00:08:57.300 --> 00:08:59.800 an amazing way, you know, you can have the fashion you can have 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:08.100 this but it's deeper, you know, obviously we saw all the dresses 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:09.300 with both. He was great. 00:09:09.300 --> 00:09:14.400 I really felt that we really had any special treat this season 00:09:14.400 --> 00:09:16.600 to really have some calls with designers. 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.400 You just have typically these like five minute click sound by 00:09:20.400 --> 00:09:22.100 its before or after the show. 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:26.000 We really got to go in depth about more than the clothes 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.000 talk about Boulder designer the future of the industry and gauge 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:33.600 their thoughts while we try to move forward. 00:09:40.400 --> 00:09:44.600 To stay from this season moving forward. 00:09:46.400 --> 00:09:52.600 I think a balance of the runway 360 app with some type of live 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.100 event would be perfect because I don't know if you know, 00:09:56.100 --> 00:10:01.500 but the runway 360 app is such a good resource for emerging 00:10:01.500 --> 00:10:02.000 brands. 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.200 A huge part of this digital experience. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:10.300 It's not just 00:10:11.400 --> 00:10:15.100 X number of people from the industry in VIP are invited to a show 00:10:15.100 --> 00:10:17.400 the new everybody can experience at the same time. 00:10:17.400 --> 00:10:22.100 And I think there's some dude it is to rebuild Fashion Week 00:10:22.100 --> 00:10:24.300 and and depression in America. 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.500 And hopefully we get to see you guys really soon and for the 00:10:31.500 --> 00:10:33.100 latest news and reviews. 00:10:33.100 --> 00:10:36.400 Don't forget go to wwe.com, bye-bye.