Designers + Agents: Made in NY Collective

An emerging designer trade show for fashion, jewelry and accessories

Another New York Fashion Week has come to an end. And yet, a different platform for clothing and accessories is about to open its doors—perhaps more quietly, but with a considerably concise vision. The Designers + Agents: Made in NY Collective trade show features a dozen emerging NYC-based fashion and jewelry designers. Some onsite will be showing for only their second or third time. All …

Fashion Company and Tech Lab Ab[Screenwear]

Blending traditional luxury with future-thinking materials to create the perfect outerwear

Ab[Screenwear] founder Olya Petrova Jackson is driven to seam the disconnect between real and virtual—specifically in the realm of apparel and its broader identity. She marries traditional luxury outerwear materials, wool, cashmere and leather—or as she refers to it “the sensual, material world”—with an RGB-like, dichroic polyurethane—”the emergent, a-material intelligence of our virtual lives.” It’s an intuitive union for her. “We are Screen,” the designer …

The Importants

The tender portraits taken by photographer, casting director and creative director Kevin Amato—for his new book The Importants—honor the characters (mostly from the Bronx) he’s dedicated to capturing on film. Amato is a pioneer of the now-common concept of street-casting, and the images in the gold hardcover range from the recognizable Luka Sabbat to emerging and unknown names. Essentially though, it’s a celebration of diversity …