This NYFW and its crazy to see how the world of runway fashion has changed. Designers are making their fashion show, I feel, more about the atmosphere and extremity of it, then the actual clothes themselves. The two that stand out most to me that have gone a bit "extra" are Phillipp Plein and Rihanna. Phillipp Plein always puts on a crazy theme runway show, that is more of a spectacle that anything. However, it is always jam packed with celebrities both on the runway and off. He is at the top of his game right now with 3 lables: Phillip Plein, Plein Sport, and Billionaires club along with dressing Mayweather for the fight.
Phillipp Plein has always been known to go over the top, with good reasoning, he explained to Fashionista.com: "...that he puts on such spectacles so that his independent namesake label can stand up against its more established luxury-brand competitors." For example, last year he showed in Milan right after Gucci, the year before that he showed after Chanel.
1. Phillipp Plein- For his Spring 2018 collection he "hosted" his show at 1OAK with basically a full blown concert to match featuring Future, Nicki Minaj, and Teyana Taylor (who gave a runway "walk" that can't be topped). He also had rappers like Rich the Kid, Swae Lee of Rae Srummerd, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin walking the runway for his mens collection
Fashion wise, Vogue Runway didn't have the nicest review, and is also semi funny.
"Plein showed women’s and men’s concurrently, under the theme “Good Gone Bad.” His recurrent logo was a ball-gagged and bonded Alice in Wonderland character (or was it Elsa from Frozen?). Some T-shirts read Plein Fairytale Crew. Was it a fairy tale? No. And cheaply glamorizing that logo and idea was icky, but some other pieces were brief flashes of, let’s say, decent dreams—the kind that flicker through the night quickly and might be hard to remember come morning, but still appeared all the same"
In my opinion, the mens shoes were sick, however the bondage them was a bit tacky and extra. The women's hair was done like ruponzel, which was probably influenced by Nicki Minaj as she is always wearing hair down to her knees. He did go out with a bang with Teyana Taylor's catwalk moment.
2. Fenty x Puma (Rihanna)- Rihanna moved her Fenty X Puma show back to New York, she had set up the runway as if you were dirt biking thru mountains as her collection was a bit X Games inspired.
And once again we are seeing some of the trends, fuschia color, trash/plastic bag type material, bra tops, and the cross shoulder fanny pack - which trend was brought back from brands like Goyard and Gucci.
3. Alexander Wang- Now, Aleander Wang did not have an over the top show, however he did have the top models wearing headbands bascially, that read, "Wangover", "Party Animal" "After After Party". At the same time he was keeping on trend with blazers, bra tops, and capes. At the end of the day, the show was played very safe but I still LOVE it.
Phillipp Plein has always been known to go over the top, with good reasoning, he explained to Fashionista.com: "...that he puts on such spectacles so that his independent namesake label can stand up against its more established luxury-brand competitors." For example, last year he showed in Milan right after Gucci, the year before that he showed after Chanel.
1. Phillipp Plein- For his Spring 2018 collection he "hosted" his show at 1OAK with basically a full blown concert to match featuring Future, Nicki Minaj, and Teyana Taylor (who gave a runway "walk" that can't be topped). He also had rappers like Rich the Kid, Swae Lee of Rae Srummerd, 21 Savage and Metro Boomin walking the runway for his mens collection
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| From left to right: 21 Savage, Rich the Kid, Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, Future (with Phillip Plein) |
Fashion wise, Vogue Runway didn't have the nicest review, and is also semi funny.
"Plein showed women’s and men’s concurrently, under the theme “Good Gone Bad.” His recurrent logo was a ball-gagged and bonded Alice in Wonderland character (or was it Elsa from Frozen?). Some T-shirts read Plein Fairytale Crew. Was it a fairy tale? No. And cheaply glamorizing that logo and idea was icky, but some other pieces were brief flashes of, let’s say, decent dreams—the kind that flicker through the night quickly and might be hard to remember come morning, but still appeared all the same"
In my opinion, the mens shoes were sick, however the bondage them was a bit tacky and extra. The women's hair was done like ruponzel, which was probably influenced by Nicki Minaj as she is always wearing hair down to her knees. He did go out with a bang with Teyana Taylor's catwalk moment.
2. Fenty x Puma (Rihanna)- Rihanna moved her Fenty X Puma show back to New York, she had set up the runway as if you were dirt biking thru mountains as her collection was a bit X Games inspired.
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| Rihanna pull up game strong |
3. Alexander Wang- Now, Aleander Wang did not have an over the top show, however he did have the top models wearing headbands bascially, that read, "Wangover", "Party Animal" "After After Party". At the same time he was keeping on trend with blazers, bra tops, and capes. At the end of the day, the show was played very safe but I still LOVE it.
Overall, it will be interesting if the European fashion houses do something similar.
Love FWSS