“I was really inspired by the women who have supported me since day one,” Christian Cowan said backstage after his spring show. His designs directly reflected each of these women: for his mother, there was a baby blue power suit; for his best friends, crystal mesh dresses; for Cardi B and Lady Gaga (the first to wear his designs), his opening pin-striped suit with an oversized bow or the rhinestone-adorned bodysuit with oversized, checkered poufed sleeves with lilac bows and a rhinestone face mask.
The second overarching idea behind Cowan’s collection was the ability to cater to the masses — or rather, the fans of the various celebrities he dresses. Cowan called it his inclusion, rather than diffusion, line, which included oversized logo T-shirts and athletic T-shirt dresses that meshed with his updated cropped and bedazzled sweatsuits, paillette-covered hoodies and playful minidresses.
The designer also debuted his first collaborations of shimmering and feather-adorned shoes with Giuseppe Zanotti and triple-layer baseball hats with Eugenia Kim. Cowan even poked fun at an unnamed designer, who had recently claimed to originate the straw hat, by turning Kim’s oversized version into a two-piece miniskirt set, which the whole audience, including Christina Aguilera and Troye
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