$3,000 tickets and other crazy NYFW things
For a small price, you too can eat a pastrami sandwich served by Michael Kors!
New York Fashion Week has arrived. And is gone.
This was the first one that I actually lived here for, and being an on-the-ground bystander versus a digital one was quite exciting. If you’re someone who cares about fashion, there was a different vibe in the air.
People on the street looked like my Instagram explorer page, I ran into Sonja Morgan, and saw Gigi Hadid leaving my neighborhood Whole Foods. Life was just better.
This really felt like the first post-pandemic fashion week that meant something to people. Every single influencer under the sun was being invited to 5+ events per day, parties and dinners were more over-the-top than ever before, and Julia Fox was the interim Mayor of New York City for five beautiful days, her son Valentino (who was also considered a celeb sighting for my roommates and I) served as Chief Of Staff.
I’m keeping in my thoughts the mental and physical wellbeing of the influencers that schlepped to and from events for seven days and nights, now facing an abyss of what just happened? staring at them right in the filtered face. Every morning while I logged onto my day job, they would be filming their glam squad who arrived to their apartments and hotels at 7 am, ready to wear a leather, new season outfit while it was still approaching 85 degrees here in the city.
There were a lot of moments this week that were good for the industry, that will be remembered long after the 14 minutes they originally lasted, and there were a lot of moments this week that were truly tragic. Who’s ready for a round of slay or nay, NYFW Spring/Summer 2023 edition!
SLAY: The STYLENOTCOM Instagram page
If keeping up with the never ending cycle of fashion news, @stylenotcom is a must follow regardless. But, it’s especially fantastic during fashion week, where they post every single thing happening amongst brands of all sizes, anyone relevant, and entertaining commentary. I really looked forward to that blue circle on my stories feed, and told perhaps every single person I work with to also follow in order to spread the wealth.
NAY: Kourtney Kardashian Barker x Boohoo
I was debating on even adding this one, because TikTok has seemingly covered everything I could possibly say, but how could I possibly not.
The fact that KKB even collaborated with Boohoo in the first place was shocking. For someone whose plot line on Keeping Up and public facing image via Poosh revolved around being sustainable, clean, green, and everything in between, a fast-fashion company with a history of unethical work practices and basically operates in a manner that’s only harmful to our planet was a real interesting career move!
The show itself was just as much of a crapshoot as this collaboration seemingly is. From power outages to tongue-ing in the front row, it just seemed like a partnership with no depth and mere money grabbing tactics. Sigh, hopefully her new line of vitamins (?????) is much more successful!
SLAY: Single Emily Ratajkowsi
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I’m officially categorizing Emily Ratajkowski under “if you hate her, grow up.”
After reading her memoir My Body, I began to respect her on a different level. Her writing is always entertaining, impressive, and comes from a deep, emotional place. She’s gone through a lot more than what people realize, is incredibly intelligent, and just seems to be living her best life post sleazy husband.
From Tory Burch to the U.S. Open with Ziwe, to Forbes summits and everything in between, she’s been G-I-V-I-N-G this week.
NAY: Kanye West at Vogue World
You guys. I’m really starting to feel delusional. WHY. DO. PEOPLE. KEEP. INVITING. AND ELEVATING. KANYE. WEST.
I really thought that after the Skete Davidson death posts, public harassment of Kris and Kim once again, and just overall absolutely abysmal behavior, we would just all agree that it’s gone too far. Multiple times.
But no. Kanye gets invited to Vogue World and is greeted with open arms, incredible news coverage, and people uplifting him, once again, to his God status. If Kanye West were not Kanye West, someone acting this way would never be okay. But for some reason, we’ve allowed him to gaslight all of us into believing that this is just Ye! This is just what Ye does! Enough. ENOUGH! How dare they put Kris Jenner in an uncomfortable position like this.
SLAY: The U.S. Open also taking place
I akin tennis grand slams to events like the Olympics or World Cups. I just love to watch them. T
The U.S. Open is incredibly chic. The Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens is really nicely put together with great food, fun merch stalls, and of course, Honey Deuces. It’s easy to get there by subway, and there is no better people watching, whether you’re viewing from home or are lucky enough to see a match in person.
These two events paralleling for a few days, particularly during the championship matches of the U.S. Open and the height of NYFW was impeccable timing. Talk about people watching. Everyone who was anyone (I took the subway) took black Escalades to cheer on the crème de la crème of tennis professionals, sport country club-chic looks, and laugh on the big screen. It was, in it of itself, an ependage of fashion week.
NAY: $3,000 Vogue World tickets
Wanna be sandwiched in between this crew? It’ll cost you about 1.5 month’s rent!
A lot of brands are beginning to open their shows to the public. Diesel just launched a lottery system online where you can enter an RSVP to their upcoming Milan show, and Revolve’s “Revolve Gallery” also invited their customers to come and see the installation.
$3,000 tickets to go to Vogue World was one of the more absurd things I’ve seen this week. Yes, it was a great gathering of legendary fashion figures, industry leaders, and emerging artists. It was definitely also a way for Vogue to say “we’re pivoting for Gen Z, we swear!”, but no Gen Z I know could afford to be there without grinding day and night on TikTok to be invited as an influencer. I’m glad Anna was bopping to Lil Nas in the front row, though.
SLAY: Davide and Ekin-Su in NYC
If this post didn’t end with me referencing any sort of reality television, it would be truly inauthentic to what Coffee Order is. Davide and Ekin-Su have made their American debut at NYFW.
Davide was representing BoohooMan at the cursed KKB show, and our summer queen Ekin was strutting her stuff in Times Square for another British fast-fashion brand, Oh Polly. They went to the observation deck at the Freedom Tower, they went to Central Park, they tagged their Instagrams as “United States of America”, and Davide’s jeans have NEVER been so tight.
Ekin-Su’s walk was better than Lila Moss’, and for that, all we can say is thank you.
I don’t know if I’ll have the mental or emotional strength to keep up with Milan and Paris, as watching from afar can be exhausting. However, if Davide and Ekin are sent to Italy, I can make a promise that I will.
this whole piece was a flex. yes