Gracing the stage at New York Fashion Week, the latest DKNY show embodied the spirit of designer Donna Karen's home town. Looking to the city's streets for inspiration, the designer referenced Park Avenue, Soho and The Bronx in her designs and stunned her front-row audience with pieces that would appeal to the native New Yorker.
Blending Park Avenue's girly silhouettes with Soho's artful prints, the designer's latest collection was both wearable and visually vivid. The womenswear presentation also referenced Brooklyn's more relaxed hipster aesthetic and looked to The Bronx for its beauty inspiration.
Fresh faced cosmetics, baby hair tresses and gorgeous braids were perhaps the DKNY's show's most talked about elements for Spring/Summer 2015. Overall, the collection blended the aesthetic of New York's neighbourhoods seamlessly and celebrated the city's diverse culture and effortlessly cool style.
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Neighborhood-inspired Fashion
- Fashion designers are creating collections inspired by the unique styles and aesthetics of different neighborhoods, presenting an opportunity for local brands and designers to showcase their own distinct voices and disrupt the fashion industry with their own neighborhood-inspired collections.
- Authentic Beauty Inspiration
- Fashion shows are looking to local neighborhoods for beauty inspiration, opening up opportunities for local salons and makeup artists to showcase their talents and disrupt the beauty industry with their own authentic, neighborhood-inspired looks.
- Wearable Artistic Prints
- Designers are capturing the essence of different neighborhoods through wearable and visually vivid prints, presenting an opportunity for artists and designers to collaborate and disrupt the fashion industry with unique, location-based designs.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Fashion
- The fashion industry can benefit from incorporating local neighborhoods' styles and aesthetics into their collections, and partnering with local designers and brands to disrupt the industry with unique and authentic designs.
- Beauty
- The beauty industry can collaborate with local salons and makeup artists to create neighborhood-inspired looks and disrupt the industry with unique and authentic beauty trends.
- Printing
- The printing industry can work with fashion designers to create wearable artistic prints inspired by different neighborhoods, providing an opportunity to disrupt the fashion industry with custom and location-specific designs.
