Alexander Wang wasn’t on the New York Trend Week calendar, however that doesn’t imply that the designer or his model have gone darkish. The corporate just lately relocated from Chinatown to a big, vivid house on the South Avenue Seaport. Wang and his crew now occupy two flooring of the constructing the place Carla Sozzani’s 10 Corso Como outpost was. The showroom has views of the Brooklyn Bridge and in signature Wang style there are black calla lilies, Byredo Loveless candles, and audio system constructed into the partitions that pump out a rotation of curated playlists at totally different sound ranges relying on the house.

Of this see-now, buy-now spring 2024 assortment he stated, it’s “actually this concept of the concrete jungle.” Fascinated about new erogenous zones, he added vertical slits to the entrance of loose-fitting pants, which is a growing development additionally seen at Phoebe Philo and Daniel Lee’s Burberry, the place practical zippers permit for adaptability. At Wang, the thigh and shin slits are bought-as-sold, horny for the youth market they’re aimed toward. Uncovered underwear is a glance he was early to: Scan again to the spring 2018 present he placed on on a dead-end avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, with cotton briefs peeking out of waistbands and bra tops hybridized with button-downs. Right here he confirmed leather-based bra tops trimmed in crochet and a bomber-bra prime mash-up full with pockets over the breasts, underwear that for all intents and functions is now outerwear. On an analogous mixed-use wavelength, he developed water-safe denim swimwear—the briefest of bikinis, cropped jean jacket, jeggings-style shorts, and many others.—that may be worn instantly from the seashore to the membership.

Does Wang take into consideration rejoining the New York schedule, the place he was as soon as one in every of its vivid stars? He has a—gasp—twentieth anniversary on the horizon, that is perhaps a second to return again. He doesn’t need to commit, however he did say he’s planning an activation timed to the discharge of his pre-fall assortment. As designers up and down the style meals chain rethink the worth and significance of style reveals, a client-first strategy would possibly simply be the precise solution to go for Wang. All it’s important to do is stroll round downtown on a summer season weekend to know that there are prospects for his model of younger, body-positive style—a lot of them.