Author | Christiane Nickel
Photography by Allison Specketer
The inevitable frenzy of fashion week was in full in swing at last Friday’s Chromat show held at Milk Studios in Chelsea. From WeTheUrban’s Executive Editorial Director Jillian Mercado to Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine, the show boasted a widely-coveted attendance list.
The show professed Becca McCharen’s iconic aesthetic: “everything you’ve posted online, social media, and texts, are collected into a digital file that reflects your personality. Eventually scientists are thinking that personality will reflect your consciousness. So if your mom or boyfriend dies, you can still text with them and call them.” – style.com
Cerebral and severe, the collection was a captivating symposium of the various silhouettes, moods, and styles very much unique to Chromat and its celebration of the body. One of McCharen’s greatest strengths in this collection was her model casting. Progressive and political yet polished, the designer chose a beautiful compendium of body types and ethnicities. Julianna Huxtable was one of the many statuesque, dauntless and downright elegant femmebots that tore up the runway infusing the clothes, the show, and the audience with the Chromat ethos: “super-human women of the future ready to take over the world.”
It felt more like a future retrospective than the cohesive presentation from a young, budding designer who’s been listed in Forbes as one of the 30 Under 30. I will mention that the Ghostbuster-green laser light nipples at the beginning of the show seemed like a kitschy cyber goth spectacle underscoring some of the other finite nuances.
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