Alexander Wang held his show at Rockefeller Center —the
first ever held at the venue, he proudly noted, and a spot extremely
well-suited for the kind of public-facing event he’s tried to pull off in the
past—was divided into sections. Donna Karan got the Wang treatment to start.
Decades after she did them, her bold shoulders and no-fuss stretch jersey
bodysuits still signal power—a testament to how groundbreaking her early
collections were.
Logo tees, denim in ’90s-ish light blue washes, and
underwear as outerwear were the Calvin Klein codes Wang picked up on. Of the
trinity, Wang’s chilled-out, sexy aesthetic is most closely aligned with
Klein’s, only here a shy Pete Davidson of Saturday Night Live
fame stood in for Marky Mark, and did a rather irresistible job of it. Ralph
Lauren-isms like flannel plaid, mile-long suede fringe, and wide-wale corduroy
are rare sights on a Wang runway. That might be why the Lauren section proved
the most compelling; change trumps continuity, and the cut of the corduroy
blazers was good.
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