For Philip Lim, Fashion Is About Art and Community

Usually fashion shows have fashions strolling down the runway sporting the clothes from a designer’s latest assortment. At Philip Lim 3.1’s A/W 2024 New York Fashion Week displaying, nonetheless, the fashions had been nowhere in sight. As an alternative, in a single room the brand new assortment of utilitarian items, (a cargo sweatsuit, a peplum denim jacket, and multipurpose knit pants) hung from racks whereas a board of lookbook images sat on an adjoining wall.

In one other room, although, was a narrative about extra than simply clothes. Photographs and clothes hung from the ceiling telling the story of life in New York Metropolis. The instillation, titled INTERSECTIONS had “4 vignettes of life as seen by a multigenerational group of AAPI creatives, together with Dong-Ping Wong of Meals Architects, photographer Jiro Konami, composer Sugar Vendil, graphic design studio Social Species, and authentic verse by youth poets: Fatima Ahmad, Jessica Kim, Vanessa Niu and Serena Yang,” in response to a press launch.

In an interview on the present, Lim informed Teen Vogue that this season was about neighborhood. “One among our mandates is utilizing our platform for an even bigger neighborhood,” he mentioned. “It is simply actually extra like an expertise and artwork set up to select up the vitality of New York Metropolis and with this [season] we wished to return again to that idea and have interaction a broader inventive neighborhood — our neighborhood — and work with poets and artwork administrators and composers, and set designers and actually showcase their work too.” He defined that they gave a coloration palette and the gathering, which he says is about “how we reside, how we work, how we love, and the way we play,” and let the artists “do their factor to set the stage.”

For the precise assortment, Lim defined that the gathering was additionally about chaotic life within the metropolis. Learn: cargo pants. “Cargo pockets aren’t only for enjoyable,” he joked, noting that New Yorkers really want these deep pockets. Previously, the model has labored by way of sustainability improvements within the designs – one sequin gown made out of seaweed is definitely being placed on show within the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in NYC. This season, he labored with recycled “undyed” yarn (AKA not redyed) for a few of the jackets.