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The Runway Show Before the Runway Show
by LAUREN TAMAKI
Writer I look to for “what is cool” so I don’t have to Google “what is cool?”
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By the goodwill of the gods, every now and then I get invited to fashion shows—and get to experience the strange and wonderful slice of New York City they occupy. Before the runway stomping begins, guests can depend on a delightful display: Fashion mavens, ingenues, and hangers-on who frolic from city to city, hungry for The Next Big Thing.
On a rainy Brooklyn day, devotees of the U.S. designer Christopher John Rogers convened for a showing of his ebullient 2024 resort collection. I reveled in the joyous peacocking from locals and those who “flew in from London just for this show.”
Fashion intern amoeba
Guy with an earpiece and clipboard wearing . . . the same blazer I’m wearing. Only one question remains: Who wore it better?