New York Fashion Week: Brandon Maxwell, LaQuan Smith, Area, Tory Burch, and Christopher John Rogers
Brandon Maxwell
During Brandon Maxwell’s New York Fashion Week show, the cheering was raucous—and very planned. Maxwell had invited Gabi Butler and Lexi Brumback of Netflix series Cheer to sit front-row and whoop the passing models, including Bella Hadid, at his New York Fashion Week show at the American Museum of Natural History. And they did their jobs, loudly.
Maxwell, now a judge on Project Runway (host Karlie Kloss, with her bob sharp enough to cut steel, headed backstage to chat to Maxwell after the show), had created a fun party “in loving memory” of renowned fashion PR Ed Filipowski. This featured a buzzy, pre-cocktail reception featuring vodka, wine, Shake Shack burgers, and then a runway show taking part in the corridors of the museum’s Bernard Hall of North American Mammals.