While designers celebrate anniversaries, returns, and remixes, they're also discovering a balance between past and present
to all the ways she’s helped steer a certain kind of New York woman’s style, someone who is confident, effortlessly put-together, but also maybe a little kooky too.In many ways, these anniversaries and returns and remixes have offered us all a chance to look back on some of the best times of American fashion. We know that nostalgia is a cash cow design concept when it comes in the forms of reissued bags, shoes, and prints.
After several seasons of slightly confused points of view or over-indulgent retro clothes, and despite this season’s celebrations of yore, it seems like the New York designers are really starting to figure that out.
Kudos to Comey, and to Batsheva Hay, for always being a leader here and truly, thoughtfully modernizing the way we view a woman’s wardrobe for work and for life. Same goes for Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada, who once again proved that past, present, and future; good, bad, and ugly can all coexist in fashion.
In many ways, at least thus far this season, designers are evolving past that tight grip on the past—or on trying to, stylistically, fit squarely into one box or another. If the answer to "Where do we go from here?" seems to be taking some time to snap into focus, maybe that's OK—because that's how it always works. The kind of effortless, chic, sometimes experimental but also minimalistic cool that Americans are constantly looking for doesn’t break through in a New York minute.