New York Fashion Week: Bella and Gigi Hadid sparkle in Ralph Lauren’s autumn collection
- Glamour of 1920s and ’30s New York offers guests reason to celebrate as ‘Ralph’s Club’ embraces night of jazz in art deco surrounds
Janelle Monáe brought down the house at Ralph Lauren’s New York Fashion Week show, where “the house” was a jazzy nightclub of yesteryear that Lauren created inside a Wall Street building to open his autumn collection.
The singer hopped on a table and danced to the ground as she performed before the huge roomful of guests, on September 7, all instructed to wear black and white evening attire – although actor Henry Golding missed that memo, showing up in a stunning blue velvet tuxedo instead.
Sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid were among the models who navigated a grand staircase of the art deco “Ralph’s Club,” inspired by the glamorous see-and-be-seen New York of the 1920s and ’30s, as they showed off Lauren’s sparkly dresses and tuxedo-inspired evening looks.
They walked amid the small, white-clothed tables that seated guests, including actress Cate Blanchett dressed in a sleek black jumpsuit.
Models wore monochrome looks mixed with opulent tones of amethyst, crimson, sapphire blue and yellow in satin, velvet, lame, sequinned cashmere and faux fur. Lauren threw in some flirty leather dancer’s skirts and beaded tops paired with miniskirts. A short black sequin cocktail dress featured the brand’s Martini Polo Bear.
Bella wore a slinky red gown while Gigi walked in a silver jacket tuxedo look. When Monáe took the stage, accompanied by a jazz orchestra, the models left posed positions at the bar to clap, whoop and dance the night away.