New York Fashion Week is getting notoriously boring and corpo, so it’s already starting at a loss, but now all these poor, beleaguered designers dropping $100k on staging runway shows have another thing to contend with: they have to live up to the promise of the first major show on the schedule. No, not talking about Yeezy Season: talking about Wednesday evening’s brilliant showing from Australian pop art designers Discount Universe.
They’ve been pop star faves for awhile—their technicolor sequin creations have shown up on Miley, Meghan Trainor, Charli XCX and more—but they’ve never had a presence on the big runway. They were included in V-Files’ show, though, in which the brand uses its considerable muscle in the fashion world to showcase up and coming, innovative lines by often international designers, and inevitably it’s the most interesting thing at New York Fashion Week, staid and stale as it tends to be. By showing on the first day, they set the tone for the rest of this whole rigmarole, and brought to the runway the ingredient that fashion often forgets is an important element: some fucking fun, for once.
Also, this poodle.
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