Let’s set the scene: Miranda has simply damaged up with Steve, and is spending her first New 12 months’s Eve alone (alone with Chinese language meals—if you realize, you realize). Carrie is in her condo sleeping when Miranda rings her to speak. “Auld Lang Syne” begins to play within the background, a tearjerker for these acquainted with Intercourse and the Metropolis lore. Carrie throws on a fur coat and a sequin beanie over her pajamas, places on a pair of smart heels, and hops on the subway (sure, Carrie took the subway) within the midst of a snowstorm to go downtown. She knocks on Miranda’s door and hugs her simply because the ball drops: “You’re not alone,” she whispers in her ear.
Contemplate this fall lineup half two of Mark Gong’s modern reappraisal of Intercourse and the Metropolis. Final season, Gong checked out Samantha Jones and contextualized his assortment inside an imaginary interpretation of the Vogue workplaces on the World Commerce Heart. This time round, he discovered inspiration in a touching scene from the primary SATC movie, and modeled his present house on Central Park after a snowfall. “Vogue is meant to be enjoyable,” the designer stated backstage. (There’s definitely one thing comedic about this reviewer flying 18 hours, give or take, to return proper again to New York Metropolis—convey a chunk of residence in all places you go, they are saying.)
Gong has developed a model of storytelling that hinges on his entertaining (and sometimes viral) theatrics. After the present, a colleague famous that his collections have turn out to be extra industrial over time. That’s a very good factor. Gong has grown up, however he’s managed to maintain issues enjoyable, whereas delivering a success product or two.
For fall, Gong riffed on Carrie’s look—plush fur coats over lush silky separates—including his signature “Gong woman” cargos, denim fits, and going-out mini-dresses and blouses to the combo. He reduce imply, vast shoulders, which have been structured and protruding in his tailoring and caved-in on his buttery, cool-girl leather-based outerwear. The entire thing was styled to look a bit of tousled, very haphazardly thrown collectively, nevertheless it labored. “The concept is that you simply save your messy self on your finest pals and for inside your property, however right here they’re carrying it out,” he stated. The designer simply went by means of a breakup of his personal, and he defined that this assortment was much less an ode to Sarah Jessica Parker and Intercourse and the Metropolis than it was to the real-life ladies who obtained him by means of that powerful time.
Gong aced the styling right here. He understands know simply what younger ladies wish to put on, but additionally what they contemplate “grown up” dressing (a class the place Carrie Bradshaw is an oracle). An overcoat held closed by the clutch of a hand, a humongous leather-based jacket thrown over a tiny going-out costume, a crewneck sweater worn over a dressy button-down shirt—these are the issues twenty-somethings are doing to play up their “maturity.”
“She’s purported to be a bit of drunk,” Gong stated, pointing at his board. “This one,” he quipped concerning the one mannequin who walked the runway presumably listening to one more voice observe about her finest pal going again to her ex, “she’s simply over it, however she nonetheless reveals up.” In life, you possibly can both be a bother maker or a lifesaver—the pal who’s all the time in want of assist or the one all the time prepared to help. However each sorts will probably be properly served by this Mark Gong assortment.
