Christian Siriano gets A-list celeb support at the NYFW show
If there were a best-view award at New York Fashion Week, Christian Siriano would win it. The sights outside the designer’s runway show atop Rockefeller Center were hard to beat: The Empire State building, the Chrysler Building and other Manhattan landmarks, just as the sun began to set on a cold but clear Saturday.
As for the clothes, Siriano looked to the future - the far-off future - with a collection that had an outer-space feel, with shiny silver metallics and highly sculpted futuristic shapes. Even the colours were galactic: ‘Pulsar purple,’ ‘comet blue,’ ‘eclipse black,’ ‘astral plane ivory,’ ‘asteroid gray,’ and ‘supernova silver.’
Celebrity guests Debra Messing, Billy Porter and Mariska Hargitay whooped with admiration as some of Siriano’s flamboyant designs came down the runway. Other celebs in attendance included actresses Christina Hendricks, Christina Ricci, Danielle Brooks, and Kelli Giddish. “I’m thinking of futurism,” Siriano said backstage about his theme, “and what do people think about that, what does futuristic mean to everybody else? So mine was if you had to live in a different realm, a different world, how would you dress, and what would your social calendar be like. What would inspire you?”
The designer is known for the diversity of his runway - racial diversity, and also size - and said he remained committed, “because that’s who our customer is, that’s our world, that’s what’s out there. So it doesn’t make sense to not have that, all these different women. I think that was very important to highlight the range of beauty.”