New York Fashion Week 21

 New York fashion Week is back after an 18 month pause due to the pandemic.  But on the plus side there is a silver lining to the for mentioned pandemic and that is that there is a renewed focus on independent designers, which is amazing. 

New York Fashion Week is held between the 8th and 12th of September.  Some of the shows I will be looking out for are Moschino on the 9th Sept, as well as Carolina Herrera, Tory Birch, Coach, Staud and Brandon Maxwell will be hosting their shows in a live stream which is available at NYFW.com

Christian Dior Designer of Dreams will also be hosting an event at The Brooklyn Museum to launch a new exhibition, '' which will showcase over two hundred haute couture garments, archival photographs, videos, sketches and much more.

The New York Fashion week will conclude with the Met Gala for the very first time, which was postponed from its normal slot in May.  This is a glittering star studded celebration of all things fashion, and this years theme is America: a Lexicon of Fashion.  

The Met Gala 2020

So due to the current situation The Met Gala 2020 will not be going ahead on the first Monday of May.  So I thought I would look at some of the fantastic outfits we have seen at the Met Gala in the past and what them theme was for the 2020 gala.

The Met Gala is a fundraiser for the Met Museum it raises money for the museum and all of its exhibitions.  I have been to this museum and it is sensational a must see and do if you ever go to New York.

The Met Gala 2020 theme is "About Time: Fashion Duration", and is partly inspired by Virginia Woolf and the theories of the French philosopher Henri Bergson.

The curator in charge of the Costume Institute of the Met- Andrew Bolton - spoke about the theme to The New York Times: " Fashion is indelibly connected to time.  It not only reflects and represents the spirit of the times, but it also changes and develops with the times".

The theme for the 2019 red carpet was "Camp: Notes on Fashion", inspired by Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'".

In 2018, Catholicism ruled the celebrity runway thanks to the theme of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.

To me the Met Gala is a celebration of fashion and how it is influenced by culture and society. 

See you next week stay safe.