The queen is dead, long live fashion.

This is how one could summarize the reaction of the New York scene to the death of Elizabeth II.

London Fashion Week, which kicks off next weekend, will look thinned out - major brands like Burberry and Raf Simons have canceled their shows.

Alphonse Kaiser

Responsible editor for the department "Germany and the World" and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin.

  • Follow I follow

For New York Fashion Week (NYFW), on the other hand – which began on Friday at 4 p.m. with Proenza Schouler’s show – and ends after five days on Wednesday at 8 p.m. with Tom Ford, it’s business as usual.

Featuring more than 100 fashion shows, as well as countless showroom presentations, store openings, dinner parties and important-important receptions.

Among them are mysterious invitations.

One can be curious about Puma, for example: "Anyone who has minted a Nitropass can receive two NFTs - one that is tied to physical products and one that unlocks a customized experience in connection with the chosen shoe." Show, sneakers can be claimed by burning the NFT associated with the product.

The Puma presentation will probably be one of the most popular events at NYFW;

for some fashion journalists, a possible giveaway is reason enough to pull themselves together for a show.

And maybe the German sports lifestyle brand will bring these strange "Non-Fungible Tokens" (NFT) closer to the fashion fans who are very much oriented towards the visible and tangible, which supposedly connect the digital with reality.

Can European brands conquer America again?

There is another reason why it will be exciting to observe the guests from Herzogenaurach: Will European brands succeed in conquering the American market again after two and a half difficult Corona years?

In addition to the Germans, the Italians in particular are trying this time, for example Marni on the prominent date on Saturday evening.

The celebrities can be seen there: Doja Cat and Madonna, among others, who disappear with the singer Tokischa at the end, are sitting in the front row.

But the most opulent thing is on the first evening, at Fendi.

From Linda Evangelista to Marc Jacobs, all the big names in New York fashion come to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the baguette bag with Silvia Fendi and her designer Kim Jones at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

For the first time since a failed plastic surgery, supermodel Linda Evangelista appears on stage - but then quickly disappears before she can be seen too closely after the show.

Paris-based brand Karl Lagerfeld (which has its headquarters in Amsterdam) on Monday unveiled the "gender-neutral" capsule collection of Cara Delevingne, one of Lagerfeld's last favorite models.

Since he discovered her, she has only been called "Cara" - just like "Inès", "Claudia" and many others since Lagerfeld have been able to do without their last name.

Many memories of deceased designers

Two days before this premiere, on Saturday, the German fashion designer would have turned 89.

He also lives on on Instagram three and a half years after his death, for example in the form of his now eleven-year-old cat Choupette.

She - or her social media consultant - posted a souvenir picture of the two on Saturday with the beautiful sentence: "I love you Dad!"