“I’m so happy I’m here,” said Blake Abbie, the editor-in-chief of A Magazine Curated By, “I have never been at a fashion show where everyone’s in a good mood,” quipped stylist Angelo De Santo, “no one else does what she [Taymour] does.”
After the show, and the dancing, guests were ushered atop a hill for an after party that included a functioning margarita fountain and the launch of Taymour’s latest furniture collaboration with Swedish interiors label Layered. “I didn’t know how much I needed this,” said DJ Oscar Nuñez of the Brooklyn collective Papi Juice, who was playing an assortment of pop hits including “Midnight Sun” by Swedish star Zara Larsson.
More than 400 people attended the show, among them eager fashion students. In a way, this was her most compelling and successful world-building exercise. In the end, runway shows are not only for industry folk. They are for designers to materialize their visions for their customers, and now, for social media onlookers.
“People push independent designers to do better and bigger and better,” Taymour says, “at least I feel that pressure.”
“We’re growing, we’re doing better, and we’re aiming higher with bigger and stronger production,” she says, “but when you try to take a chance, there’s pushback and it’s too much. But I want to keep creating moments that make people excited.”
