I think I liked Alexander Wang’s fall collection. I say “think” because I don’t really know yet. I only have the fleeting impression I got from viewing the clothes from the very back “row” — that’s in quotes because there were no rows; it was an open, standing-room-only situation because that’s cool and this is a democracy.
In addition to being at a distance (which I didn’t mind, to tell you the truth, since I had a lot more room than those suckers who thought it was better to be crushed but close to the runway) it was really dark in the vacant RKO Hamilton Theater on 146th Street and Broadway, just a hop, skip and a jump from everything else going on during fashion week. So dark, I almost fell on these really shallow steps that were invisible to the non-night-vision-seeing-eye. Remind me to tell you about last season at Wang’s show when I ended up in the emergency room because my coworker was so desperate to get Madonna on WWD’s Instagram Stories that he jumped on a bench, and then he and the bench fell on my foot. It wasn’t broken but it is still a teensy bit swollen five months
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