NYFW: A Manifestation in Motion
I couldn’t help but wonder… what is it about New York Fashion Week that makes the whole world stop and stare? Out of the Big Four — Paris, Milan, London, and New York — it’s this city that feels the most electric, the most alive. Maybe it’s the skyline, maybe it’s the hustle or maybe it’s my own love affair with the Big Apple.
Twice a year, Manhattan transforms into a kaleidoscope of fabric, flashbulbs, and fantasy. Designers unveil their visions, editors scribble notes, models glide like poetry in motion — and the rest of us? We watch, we dream, we manifest.
This season, Michael Kors opens the calendar, Brandon Maxwell celebrates a decade of brilliance, Alexander Wang marks 20 years with The Matriarch, and newcomers like Nicholas Aburn and L’Enchanteur step onto the runway for the first time. It’s the past and the future colliding under the city’s lights.
But Fashion Week isn’t only about the shows. It’s the sidewalks — every corner a stage, every outfit a headline. It’s Veuve Clicquot picnics with Jacquemus in Central Park, rooftop parties that last until sunrise, and the way New York hums a little louder when fashion takes over.
And here I am, watching from afar. Yet as I sip my coffee and scroll the shows, I can feel it — that pull. That whisper that says, next year, you’ll be here. Maybe it’s the click of my heels down a Chelsea side street. Maybe it’s slipping into a Brandon Maxwell show, notebook in hand. Maybe it’s just standing outside a venue, heart racing, calling the chaos magic.
Fashion Week, especially here in New York, has always been about more than clothes. It’s about reinvention. About daring to show the world who you are before it even knows it wants to see you. Writing this is my first stitch in manifesting the dream.
So next year, Lavender & Linen will be in New York City for Fashion Week. Until then, I’ll keep watching, keep manifesting, and keep wondering: is fashion just fabric on a runway, or is it the spark that inspires us to reinvent ourselves, season after season?
