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In the old days of New York Fashion Week, the shows were consolidated into centralized locations. First, it was Bryant Park; later, Lincoln Center. Most recently, for years, Spring Studios in SoHo was home to a wide variety of shows that would take place one after the other, or sometimes simultaneously.
That’s changed for good. Now, New York Fashion Week is increasingly a loose, spread-out affair. Brands are showing in their own disparate venues all over the city, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan all the way to Bushwick in Brooklyn. The change has been met with a mixed reception from both fashion designers and other professionals who work or cover the event. For some, the freedom to show wherever, and whenever, they want has meant a flourishing of individuality. For others, it’s added to the already expensive cost burden of putting on a show.
Cole Durkee, founder of the 2-year-old brand Destroyer of Worlds, is holding his NYFW debut on Sunday night at the Clemente, a Puerto Rican and Latin-American cultural space on the lower east side of Manhattan. Destroyer of Worlds is an unabashedly idiosyncratic brand, born out of Durkee’s work studio, managing Brooklyn designer Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen, and his background in sculptural art. Durkee said he relishes the fact that NYFW designers are no longer restricted to a few venues, or even to a specific timeframe.
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