Designer brought back concepts of his 90s collection at New York fashion week
“Don’t get me wrong, I am all for comfort, but I like a little polish too. These days I see women on the city streets wearing jogging bras,” said Michael Kors before his New York fashion week show. “I’m thinking of getting ‘chic is not a dirty word’ printed on a T-shirt.”
If he did, it would undoubtedly sell. Kors is the man who brought the It bag to the masses, inventing a new category of “affordable luxury”, and his success has made him and two of his early business partners billionaires. His commercial mindset was evident in the audience for his latest catwalk show – staged, appropriately, at the former American Stock Exchange headquarters in Manhattan’s financial district – where 10% of invitations were reserved for his biggest spending clients.
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