Let’s set the scene: Miranda has simply damaged up with Steve, and is spending her first New 12 months’s Eve alone (alone with Chinese language meals—if you realize, you realize). Carrie is in her residence sleeping when Miranda rings her to talk. “Auld Lang Syne” begins to play within the background, a tearjerker for these accustomed to Intercourse and the Metropolis lore. Carrie throws on a fur coat and a sequin beanie over her pajamas, places on a pair of smart heels, and hops on the subway (sure, Carrie took the subway) within the midst of a snowstorm to go downtown. She knocks on Miranda’s door and hugs her simply because the ball drops: “You’re not alone,” she whispers in her ear.
Take into account this fall lineup half two of Mark Gong’s up to date reappraisal of Intercourse and the Metropolis. Final season, Gong checked out Samantha Jones and contextualized his assortment inside an imaginary interpretation of the Vogue workplaces on the World Commerce Middle. This time round, he discovered inspiration in a touching scene from the primary SATC movie, and modeled his present area on Central Park after a snowfall. “Style is meant to be enjoyable,” the designer stated backstage. (There’s definitely one thing comedic about this reviewer flying 18 hours, give or take, to come back proper again to New York Metropolis—convey a chunk of house all over the place you go, they are saying.)
Gong has developed a model of storytelling that hinges on his entertaining (and infrequently viral) theatrics. After the present, a colleague famous that his collections have turn into extra industrial over time. That’s an excellent factor. Gong has grown up, however he’s managed to maintain issues enjoyable, whereas delivering successful product or two.
For fall, Gong riffed on Carrie’s look—plush fur coats over lush silky separates—including his signature “Gong woman” cargos, denim fits, and going-out mini-dresses and blouses to the combination. He lower imply, vast shoulders, which have been structured and protruding in his tailoring and caved-in on his buttery, cool-girl leather-based outerwear. The entire thing was styled to look a little bit tousled, very haphazardly thrown collectively, however it labored. “The thought is that you simply save your messy self in your finest buddies and for inside your house, however right here they’re carrying it out,” he stated. The designer simply went via a breakup of his personal, and he defined that this assortment was much less an ode to Sarah Jessica Parker and Intercourse and the Metropolis than it was to the real-life ladies who bought him via that robust time.
Gong aced the styling right here. He understands know simply what younger ladies need to put on, but in addition what they think about “grown up” dressing (a class the place Carrie Bradshaw is an oracle). An overcoat held closed by the clutch of a hand, a humongous leather-based jacket thrown over a tiny going-out costume, a crewneck sweater worn over a dressy button-down shirt—these are the issues twenty-somethings are doing to play up their “maturity.”
“She’s speculated to be a little bit drunk,” Gong stated, pointing at his board. “This one,” he quipped concerning the one mannequin who walked the runway presumably listening to one more voice observe about her finest pal going again to her ex, “she’s simply over it, however she nonetheless exhibits up.” In life, you may both be a bother maker or a lifesaver—the pal who’s at all times in want of assist or the one at all times prepared to help. However each varieties might be nicely served by this Mark Gong assortment.
