For designers, the novelty of Brooklyn has apparently not worn off. After the Alexander Wang and Christian Dior shows there and a Givenchy after party last week that was practically underneath the Williamsburg Bridge, the pack of roving editors in town for New York Fashion Week and the usual front-row fixtures headed to Dumbo Monday night for Rag & Bone’s spring show at the performance space St. Ann’s Warehouse.
Some took consolation in the schlep to the outer borough because, just 15 minutes away in Williamsburg, Phillip Lim was holding a 10th anniversary dinner at North Brooklyn Farms. As long as they were in Brooklyn already…
In a recent interview with WWD, Lim’s chief executive officer Wen Zhou spoke about the need for labels to inspire “desire” in their customers and it’s true that in his 10 years in business, the designer has successfully amassed a cult of devoted fans. Among them is the actress Mamie Gummer. She is not a regular in the front row, but she chose Lim as her only appearance this fashion week on purpose.
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“I’m really a great fan of Phillip and when they invited me to the show and to this, I just thought, ‘Why not?’” she said.
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“I play a burn victim war veteran. It’s a delightful farce,” she deadpanned. Monday just happens to be her day off and she grabbed the chance to spend it in lighter company, surrounded by fashionistas and the likes of Chloe Nørgaard and Solange Knowles at Lim’s show earlier in the day at Pier 94 and taking in a set that featured an installation by the artist Maya Lin made of enormous mounds of dirt composted over a year.
“It’s apparently very, very pure dirt,” Gummer said of the piece. “There’s something very poetic and ironic about that idea, that you could have a pile of dirt and it could be pristine.”
And now, as she was looking around the open-air dinner spread, a crowd that included models such as Cris Urena, party fixtures like Harley Viera-Newton and the spectacular views of the Williamsburg Bridge behind her, it dawned on her she might just have picked the ideal way to take her mind off the tough character she plays every day.
“It’s the very antithesis of this,” she said, marveling.