NEXT-GEN COOL
Today, we’ve made it to the first day of New York Fashion Week, the first of 6 days full of fall and winter 2024-2025 apparel, shoes, and accessories, plus we’ve tapped into a new generation of coolness involving cross-gender style, Y2K looks, digital inspirations, and a new play on minimalism, DANIEL PLUS LAUREN kicks off NYFW over at the World Trade Center’s The Occala, where we go to The Canvas 3.0, setting our sights on GEN Z, and what possibly could be the early stages of ALPHA with open and timeless collections by Sourplum, Wen, and Roommate 22.
SOURPLUM
With its multi-looks of sporty, stylish, and street, Sourplum states first off that it’s timeless, there’s no such thing as a seasonal collection in their purview, and that it’s a unisex collection, featuring a sustainable not just with time, but environmentally using vegan materials to produce their clothing that omits carbon footprints, so much attitude draws out of Sourplum with pink and blue tank tops, turtlenecks, puffy jackets, cashmere like blazers, sports jackets made of what could be vegan suede, and cute sweater vest having white and dark blue vegan furs.
WEN
If there’s one key takeaway that GEN Z has learned from millennials, it’s not always about more is more, it’s the old less is more with home decor and even handbags, WEN handbags not only strive for minimalism and quality, but have 2 solid aspects behind it, one is that WEN handbags are made with 100 percent leather with hardware from China, and manufactured in Europe; aspect two is WEN handbags pay tribute to New York City as it uses minimalism to design their handbags according to NYC structures, square represents stocky buildings, thin rectangle represent new thin structures, and twin handbags looking like cigarette boxes do huge honor to World Trade Center, with its similar standing tall design while paired with another handbag exactly the same but in a different color.
ROOMMATE 22
New York City and its economics have inspired unusual living arrangements for those who hustle to make it here in these 5 boroughs, enter ROOMMATE 22, where handbags and underwear celebrate how your roommates who are men and women, and find love not just with the opposite sex, inspire a new spring in social media using camcorders, and love between 2 men with simple solid underwear briefs that are unisex, plus handbags modeled with Y2K technology made up of lambskin material.
It’s definitely a time of exploration, curiosity, and true happiness with The Canvas 3.0 here at The Occala at New York Fashion Week, architecture here at this mall of the future truly align tremendously with SOURPLUM, WEN, and ROOMMATE 22 celebrating the idea of next gen living, enjoying the high quality yet expensive parts of New York City while having your roommates both sexes living together and knowing no boundaries become not only your friends, but also your family, people you want to die with.