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and Cory Kennedy. Even OGs Lisa Love and Whitney Port made cameos. In"The Collinas," Tommy quickly struggles to adapt to the workplace culture and a plant-based diet."Can Tommy make it in the high-stakes world of sustainable fashion?" the premise asks.
It gave the chartreuse shirts, hip-padded dresses, trippy fringe blankets and mix of velvet, satin and feathered pieces a Y2K and playful context in which to live in, not unlike designer Hillary Taymour's past video projects like"Animorphs." There's been a lot said about the absence of big tentpole figures on the NYFW schedule, but the newer names are making the most of it. Bach Mai, the Texas-born, Paris-trained designer who worked under John Galliano at Maison Margiela, fist made a splash last fall with his first collection of couture garments with full skirts and organa suits.
But for his first Fashion Week outing, Mai unleashed an explosion of soft pastels and gradient tiers of color, a departure from his initial collection of mostly black pieces.dubbed him an"American Couturier in the Making" and it's not hard to see why: shown on mannequins at the Times Center, his techniques included a panné velvet made from clear lurex woven onto silk with ombrés as well as a mille-feuille of raw-edged chiffon strips.