Nearly every email I’ve received in my inbox over the past few days includes some variation of this line: “I can’t believe it’s August already!”
I can’t believe it either. Especially because that means Fashion Week is around the corner. I’ve been busily planning out our coverage of it and visiting various designers’ work studios in the process, which is why my blog posts have been so spotty recently. That said, expect lots of little Fashion Week preview bits and bobs between now and September 10, which is when it all kicks off in New York.
First up: Erin Wasson X RVCA will be showing in New York’s Bryant Park tents for the first time. “It’s really a thrill to be able to take a venue everyone in the fashion industry knows so well, and bring in new personalities and a new vibe that spin the experience in a different direction,” she says in a press release. “I mean, it’s almost too predictable to do something ‘cool’ in, like, an abandoned warehouse. Cool can happen anywhere. It’s a state of mind. That’s the essence of the Erin Wasson x RVCA brand, and there’s no reason not to follow that logic onto the runway.” She’s got a point about the abandoned warehouse as show venue trend. Trekking from one far out, random, deserted street to another can get old when so many designers attempt to “stand out” in basically the same way. It’s also worth noting that this will be New York Fashion Week’s last season at the Bryant Park tents. Afterwards, it moves to Lincoln Center.
