New York Fashion Week 2022: All the Chic Fits, Concerning Trends, and Despicable Copycats

Kim Kardashian, Bella Hadid, Lori Harvey, Julia Fox and more sure brought...something to the Big Apple's annual style extravaganza!

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It’s September, which means a lot of things. Football is back; the kiddos are back in school, after collectively regressing more than a decade in learning progress; and the cultural elite, chronically skinny, and unironically opulent are now bopping around at New York Fashion Week.

New York’s annual see-and-be-seen week is back, and the country’s most famous, fabulous, and feckless are in town to party. Oh, and to sit front row at some fashion shows while zoning out, wondering how they’re going to butter up their connect to the Miu Miu show so they can feast on the roughly seventh trend revival of ballet flats. That’s what Fashion Week is all about: setting the trends for the upcoming season and flaunting quid pro quo relationships with designers like Christian Siriano and Telfar Clemens.

Who can wear the most resplendent ensembles? Who can be seen at the most exclusive fetes? Who can make a sport out of attending the most events in one night? Oh, and darling, don’t bother bringing your eyebrows; unless they’re iridescent, visible eyebrows are faux pas this year.

Get ready for an onslaught of images of people shockingly more privileged and hotter than you. In the name of fashion, of course.

Bella Hadid

Bella Hadid
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Pictured here is very famous model Bella Hadid (and apparently car mechanic who refuses to get her hands dirty) walking Fendi’s runway show, and also a tiny little Fendi baguette necklace. It’s so small and so distracting that I almost didn’t notice these horrifying hybrid moccasin-slippers.

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian
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Kardashian sister #1 was spotted front row and, here, outside the Fendi runway show. She’s certainly someone’s knight in shining armor in this chainmail disco moment, just not mine!

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker
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The emo duo could pass as conspiracy theorists’ hottest new cult leaders at the Tommy Hilfiger Fall 22 NYFW Experience. Travis also appears ready to hibernate for the winter. Last step? Must stuff cheeks full of walnuts.

Kendall Jenner

Kendall Jenner
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Our third Kardashian sister walked the runway during the Proenza Schouler Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2023 show, and was spotted all over town, including cozying up to boyfriend Devin Booker at the U.S. Open this weekend. This dress is fine. It’s like a flapper decided to go to Coachella, but stopped at Limited Too first to pick up some day-of-the-week low-rise undies.

Lori Harvey

Lori Harvey
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In this ensemble, model Lori Harvey blew everyone else at the Fendi show away like little dandelions. Silly celebrities! If Lori can pull off early aughts straightened side bangs, what can’t she do?

Julia Fox

Julia Fox
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Annnnd she’s is back on the runway, at Tommy Factory New York Fall 2022. Putting aside her semi-ironic mom-fluencer shtick for a moment, sis looks like she’s on her way to financially dominate some Wall Street bros.

Maude Apatow

Maude Apatow
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The Euphoria star arrived at the Fendi show looking like a watercolor dream! A pink cotton candy vision! A ballerina bundled in chiffon! Approved.

Duckie Thot

Duckie Thot
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Not sure how, but model Duckie Thot is making those Ironman gloves hot as she walks the runway at the Tommy Factory show. Or is it Michelin man forearms? Either way, this combination of elements (high school sweat pants? turtleneck? argyle vest?) should by all means look heinous together, but Duckie, gloves or not, is a superhero for making it work.

Karlie Kloss

Karlie Kloss
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Here’s model and host Karlie with her little Fendi Baguette bag outside the Fendi show (yes, that’s Instagram’s fashion chief, Eva Chen, to the right). I want you to know that I just stuck my tongue out and made a little fart noise. This look is so boring!!!

Laura Harrier

Laura Harrier
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Actor Laura Harrier was spotted outside the Khaite show, looking like a proper fuckboy. This moto-jacket moment makes me feel like she’s about to pick up her phone and text me “u up?” For the record, I would absolutely answer.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker
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Ok, I’m sorry, this isn’t an outfit, it’s just a photo in which I imagine the Sex and the City star to be saying, “Hehehehehe!” Evil little wench, I see you!

Iris Apatow

Iris Apatow
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Baby Apatow has ARRIVED, and no, I don’t just mean to the Fendi show.

Precious Lee

Precious Lee
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Simply drooling over this, that’s all.

Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes
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The actor was spotted in an Ulla Johnson dress outside the Ulla Johnson show. I’m curious, however, if her family back home on the prairie misses her?

Doja Cat

Doja Cat
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Doja Cat was spotted front row at the Bronx & Banco fashion show on Friday, looking like a sultry alien bullfighter with a splash of Avatar the Last Airbender. She really can do no wrong.

Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson
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The presence of Janet Jackson alone is scintillating enough, but this all-black moment is so understated, yet iconic, that it’s giving me DEATH. The singer was photographed outside of Christian Siriano’s Spring/Summer 2023 Show at the Elizabeth Collective on Wednesday night.

Ciara

Ciara
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No notes. If Sherlock Holmes was a dominatrix She-lock Holmes, this is what she’d wear. This jacket also looks as if an unexpected raindrop would slide right off it. Or a wine spillage, though I don’t think someone like Ciara ever spills wine.

Emily Ratajkowski

Emily Ratajkowski
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The My Body author has conveniently covered up her body in this Hillary Clinton-esque ensemble at a New York Fashion Week reception hosted by both Mayor Eric Adams (?) and Vogue on Thursday. This sleek white dress with high slits reads to me as: “Look at my body, imagine my body, but don’t think about my body, because you’re reducing me to an object and are obviously serving the patriarchy.”

Julia Fox

Julia Fox
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Oh, Julia. I can’t decide if this is Star Trek-inspired, an homage to Elvira, or simply just a dress designed to draw attention to her new paid partnership with Xeomin (the same one that partnered with Joe Jonas, the Bro-tox advocate!). The bowl bangs are also certainly...a choice.

Angus Cloud

Angus Cloud
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Angus looks more like he snuck into this event and thinks it’s really fucking sick he convinced the PR reps to let him walk the carpet. Obsessed with him showing off this pinky ring.

Lori Harvey

Lori Harvey
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You heard it here probably last: Lime green is IN. Puffer jackets: IN. Martian prom dresses: ALSO IN.

Joe Jonas

Joe Jonas
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It’s the Botox Bro—I mean, a Jonas Brother, looking young and wrinkle-free as ever!!!!

The Ladies in Brown

The Ladies in Brown
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From left to right, we’ve got model Jasmine Tookes, designer Dumebi Andrea, influencer Serena Kerrigan, and influencer Marianna Hewitt in the same dress. AT THE SAME EVENT (which is admittedly a Revolve collaboration, so they’re all wearing a dress from the brand, BUT STILL). Absolutely geeking about all four of these mocha frappuccinos.

Ziwe

Ziwe
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Honestly, the blurred checkered pattern is giving me a bit of a seizure. But Ziwe asked Caroline Calloway if she had any Black friends once, so in my eyes, the comedian and HBO Max host will never truly fail at anything. Love the loafers.

Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter
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The singer and Disney Channel actor appears to be testing out her sewing skills. Looks like she tore up a few pillows from the couch and stitched them into her mom’s ‘70s flare jeans. A Canadian tuxedo, except not a very good one, sorry not sorry.

Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone
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At the Christian Siriano show, the Clueless icon reminds me of a chic clown in mourning. But the proud rocking of the grey roots truly, beautifully makes up for it all.

Nicky Hilton Rothschild

Nicky Hilton Rothschild
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You know what? I love this tailored shirt-dress moment for Nicky. Pictured at the Monse fashion show at Battery Bosque, she looks exactly what you think the heiress of one of America’s richest family fortunes should look like: expensive, but basic.

Antoni Porowski

Antoni Porowski
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You already know that Jezebel Dot Com loves men in skirts. I know the Queer Eye star bats for the other team, but I am intensely attracted to him in this, I’m so sorry.

SouKeyna Diouf

SouKeyna Diouf
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The Senegalese model had the best look of the entire Revolve carpet. On top of looking objectively gorgeous, I don’t know if she’s going to Lindsay Lohan’s beach club in Mykonos or a space cowboy party. So much mystery, so much intrigue!

Elsa Hosk

Elsa Hosk
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The supermodel is also buying into the Spicy Sherlock Holmes trend, although this take on it is a little more Gen Z Gothic. You know, the kind that shows up to a job interview and says, “I just want you to know that I am really precious about my priorities, and work is not one of them.”

Rebel Wilson

Rebel Wilson
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I am so inexplicably bored by this Wife of a Golfer ensemble. Also are skinny jeans back, or did she just trigger me for no reason at all?

 
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