There aren’t any rain checks throughout vogue week. This was made clear on Sunday night time when Tommy Hilfiger introduced its “See Now, Purchase Now” fall 2022 assortment at Brooklyn’s Skyline Drive-In theater. A gradual mist blanketed the outside showcase, forcing viewers members to don plastic ponchos over their lavish outfits and fashions to stomp throughout a slick runway. Moist hair apart, the climate matched the moody, hard-edged model of prep Hilfiger appears on this season. Whips, harnesses, spiked leather-based jackets? The quintessentially American designer has shifted from outfitting the honour roll pupil to the category troublemaker.
The present kicked off with a bounty of dramatically outsized and voluminous items. There was a striped varsity polo that fell far beneath a male mannequin’s knees (which, on the correct individual, may very well be styled as a gown, in the event you so happy). Dishevelled chinos with sufficient room for 2. What can solely finest be described as thicc scarves wrapped across the neck a number of instances with loads of cloth to spare. At one level, a mannequin got here strutting out in a monogrammed jumpsuit, cracking a protracted whip towards the rain. And proper after her got here a Tommy Hilfiger cowboy—full with a Texas-sized gallon hat and a chest harness. Rise up was within the air.
A part of the showcase included Hilfiger’s just lately launched collaboration with British designer Richard Quinn. These limited-edition transatlantic items, on sale now, appeared to borrow from the grunge scene situated throughout the pond, with menacing spiked leather-based jackets and mosh-ready boots. Travis Barker, who attended the present with Kourtney Kardashian-Barker, Kris Jenner, and Corey Gamble, wore one of many assortment’s many dramatic puffers, which felt extra kimono than jacket, with black sun shades on and no shirt beneath. Additionally within the viewers: pop singer Shawn Mendes, Kate Moss, and EGOT-winner John Legend.
A standout side of the large-scale occasion was the remarkably broad and inclusive casting. There was fabulous range in age, race, and physique varieties all through the present. Activist and land protector Quannah Chasinghorse, mannequin Winnie Harlow, and even former Interview Journal editor Bob Colacello, who first stepped into the position in 1971, made appearances. If the world of prep as soon as felt rarified and exclusionary to these on the margins—as just lately explored within the conversation-sparking Netflix documentary White Scorching—this assortment gave the impression to be all about highlighting the thought of inclusivity of the Hilfiger model at present.
For the present’s grand finale, Barker hopped out of his seat and went from viewer to participant. He jumped on stage, shedded his coat, and rocked out on the drums with a band. The New York skyline shone brilliant behind him. Droplets of rain flew up with every drum beat. A drone hovered within the sky and captured every thing, so buyers at residence may watch the motion on a livestream and, then, perhaps, go on Roblox and purchase a few of TH’s metaverse vogue. That is the Tommy Hilfiger model in 2022: large, inclusive, and slightly rowdy.
