Sally LaPointe NYFW - P 2015
AP ImagesThe notables crammed together in the front row of designer Sally LaPointe’s spring 2016 runway show on Thursday weren’t up-and-coming actresses looking for a little PR boost. Instead, they represented a coterie of high-powered buyers and bloggers who wield the power to change a designer’s future faster than a reality show ever could.
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Linda Fargo (seen below), the elegant, bob-haired senior vice president of Bergdorf Goodman, furiously scribbled notes in a journal throughout the runway presentation, while Neiman Marcus fashion director and senior vice president Ken Downing intently studied each luxe, minimalist look that came down the zig-zagging runway.
A few meters down on the front row bench sat perennial fashion plate Leandra Medine of influential fashion site The Man Repeller, near a jeans-clad Danielle Bernstein — founder of the hugely popular site WeWoreWhat, which boasts a following of 1.2 million on Instagram.
Bernstein, who reportedly makes tens of thousands of dollars annually from brands who pay her to pose in their clothes on Instagram, posted a photo of a model from LaPointe’s show that — at press time — had garnered close to 9,000 likes.
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The New York-based designer’s latest collection jazzes up ’90s Calvin Klein-style minimalism with feminine (but never syrupy sweet) accents like chunky tone-on-tone embroidered beading. A fire engine red trench coat was dripping with heavy beading in the same crimson hue; a pleated midi skirt was rescued from the realm of matronly by its edgy textile: see-through black vinyl.
It’s obvious why the entire collection is tasty bait for retail buyers: LaPointe’s designs are the kind of quietly opulent clothes affluent New Yorkers love to live in.
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