Covering the aerodrome with beach dunes and surfboards, Tommy Hilfiger angry Pier 94 on New York’s Westside Highway into a Californian paradise for his Spring 2014 accumulating at the New York Fashion Week.
Reflecting on the afflatus for the set design, Hilfiger said: “It’s absolutely aggressive by aggregate from Melrose to Malibu, and so we brought Malibu actuality to New York. It’s about surfing, skating and adventurous lifestyle.”
Hilfiger led with a alternation of colour-blocked neoprene pieces – one of the better trends arising from melancholia previews. Folding a palette of saturated brights and sun-washed pastels assimilate covering adviser jackets, polo dresses and angular pants, there were abounding references to scuba and skater culture.
Elsewhere, Carolina Herrera apparent a hypnotising accumulating abounding of multidimensional geometric motifs advised to accord a activity of ‘clothes in motion’. The Venezuelan-born artist was heavily afflicted by the assignment of some of her adolescent countrymen. As she explained: “My afflatus has been active art, abnormally the two Venezuelan artists – Cruz Diez and Jesus Soto – who absolutely are the fathers of the active movement. Visually, I anticipate that it is actual important back the fabrics angle on top of anniversary other.”
Herrera is a adept doyenne of New York Fashion Week, who has dressed United States aboriginal ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, and a bench at her aerodrome appearance is consistently one of the added approved tickets in town.
This year, Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Ne-Yo all watched on as her boundless curve and layered striping tricked the eye.
New York Fashion Week comes to a abutting on September 12.
