New York Fashion Week: would Miley Cyrus really be seen in Tom Ford's new sporty spring 2020 collection?
- Eclectic designer looks back to Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Ursula Andress, YSL, Luc Besson’s Subway and Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog for new collection – modelled by Gigi Hadid and with Ansel Elgort and Anna Wintour in attendance
All aboard! Tom Ford enticed the fashion crowd into an abandoned subway station in downtown NYC – by serving up dumplings – before a precarious three-storey walk to the rails, and, yes, heels were involved.
Miley Cyrus, sporting a floppy black hat in the front row, could easily pull off any of his bra tops in metallic green and purple. A tiny black strappy onesie with revealing cut-outs had her name all over it as New York Fashion Week reached its midway point on a shortened, six-day schedule, on Monday, September 9.
Sporty was the name of Ford’s game for spring 2020, in elevated ball caps and leather biker jackets of black and cream. Wide elastic-waist trousers came in several colours, including neon orange, lime and red, the latter paired with a sculpted breastplate of a crop top that defined his model’s chest in the same hue.
Ford put wide pleats on the front of voluminous long skirts and offered plenty of New Yorkers’ favourite colour: black. His female models wore spiked updos and his men rocked shades as actor Ansel Elgort, Anna Wintour and Diane von Furstenberg also looked on.
Bowery and Delancey streets may never be the same, nor the Metropolitan Transit Authority workers in safety vests who stood watching on the tracks.