Toussaint Rosefort AW24 Collection
The fashion crowd loves a fashion show —-it’s a celebration every time one can throw a "fit." So naturally, even the 100% chance of rain and a trek to the furthest part of the Upper East Side couldn’t keep industry insiders away from Toussaint Rosefort AW24 runway presentation.
Rosefort hosted his extravaganza in a community center. You could feel that back-to-school energy permeating the air —fitting for a Fall collection— as guest took their seats at the cafeteria lunch tables. This is Toussaint Rosefort’s second collection showing, and there’s always an additional coating of excitement added to attending an emerging designer’s show, as commercial aesthetics have yet to infiltrate --or dominate-- the creative process.
Entitled "Death of Innocence," Toussaints origins in Haitian, Puerto Rican, and American culture offered a playful, punkish spin on youth culture clothing. Notable stunning pieces throughout the fall lineup include the lint covered puffer jacket styled with a lingerie lace top and black pants, the "Vote For No One" t-shirt --simple yet powerful in the current political climate and a deconstructed long-sleeve menswear top with cut panels in the area that exposed the bicep and shoulders. Rosefort also repurposed neckties into corsets, used numerous head-to-toe black ensembles to weave a punkish attitude into the mix, and added pops of red throughout the collection, trimming knit vests and coloring the pocket that carried Scantron test sheets on a black sweater.
Toussaint Rosefort AW24 Collection image courtesy of Toussaint Rosefort.
