Rachel Comey’s showroom was busy with consumers writing orders. All these gloom and doom tales about retailers opting out of New York Style Week that we have been listening to—they didn’t apply right here.

Possibly that’s as a result of Comey designs for the real-life wants of her clients in a altering atmosphere—which means not simply the methods through which we work and the way we costume for them, but additionally shifting climate points. Contemplating the first position that local weather performs in our clothes selections, you’d suppose designers could be speaking about record-breaking warmth and atmospheric rivers on a regular basis. “Am I the one one?” she laughed, when altered to her one-of-one standing. From different designers you have a tendency to listen to empty pronouncements about “my girl” and eye roll-inducing nonsense about “independence and energy,” as if these are uncommon qualities amongst womankind.

Comey doesn’t hassle herself with that type of discuss. As a substitute she stated was interested by how the summer time humidity prolonged into fall right here in New York final yr, and about all of the rain we obtained after that, as she was designing. She made changes accordingly, including each sheer puckered separates (for staying cool) and waxed cotton outerwear (for remaining dry) to her seasonal combine. She’s additionally utilizing extra water resistant moleskin than prior to now. With a brand new retailer in San Francisco, she has much more climate and clothes issues to deal with; as an illustration, the best way the locals put on down puffers in the summertime (see Mark Twain, if you happen to’re confused).

If all this makes Comey sound critical or boring, that’s the improper impression, because the flower bedecked social gathering pants in the look above clarify. Additionally enjoyable: a flower print costume pleated Fortuny-style and a black and white fringed chubby jacket that makes a legit different to one thing we’ve already seen an excessive amount of of this season: fake fur.