NYFW in Bushwick: Denim, Butt Plugs, and Abundant Glitter

“Alternative white girl shade is all clairo shade, don’t you think?” someone was asking in front of me, in the short line leading to the latest run of “Krater,” a regularly recurring New York Fashion Week entry created by Giselle Manzano, pointedly taking place far away from the Manhattan runways. For the last few years, these have been run out of the House of Yes on Wyckoff Avenue, a decision that has signified these ideas as explicitly Bushwick-coded. Nevertheless, they have been steadily approaching the edges of the mainstream, with recent runway shows attracting attention from trade periodicals as geographically varied as Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam and Vogue Switzerland. “An artistic incubator at the intersection of sustainable fashion design, performance art, and electronic music,” claimed Harper’s outpost in Ho Chi Minh City, where Manzano was described as a “fearless leader” who has courted designers who have “dressed stars such as Kate Moss, J Balvin, Eve, Connie Diamond.”