It's Here! The New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2021 Archive

If you’re like me and desperately need something more constructive to soothe your wiles than boozing away the dumpster fire that has been the past few days, you’re in the right place. Welcome to the New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2021 archive!

Each fashion month, I post summaries of (almost) each day on my Instagram Stories, laying out the most significant runway shows with the important take-aways from each one. This year, obvi, was a bit different, with very few designers opting for the runway layout for their presentations.

Many designers chose lookbooks, some enhanced with videos. Others, like Mark Jacobs, forwent the season entirely, so far gone was their creative process at the hands of the pandemic.

This made for a meager New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2021 (that’s a mouthful, isn’t it?). But don’t write it off – designers are still creating interesting, reflective, reactive, and relevant art. Some used designing as an escape, while others as a protest, and still others as a means to process what we’ve all been going through. Think about these shows as parts of a whole, little pieces of the 2020 psyche and a fractional representation of the myriad journies our minds take on any given day – or, simply, sit back and enjoy.

Sometimes you need art to soothe the heart, others you need it to stimulate a catharsis. You do YOU.

Here we go, in alphabetical order – not all designers are represented, just a handful I found pertinent for us here on the blog!