Brooklyn, both the borough and the arty intellectual aesthetic that epitomizes it, was represented in earnest at Rachel Comey’s fashion show/three-course dinner held at Dustin Yellin’s Pioneer Works in Red Hook. A cynic might say it bordered on parody, what with hostess Tracee Ellis Ross in character as someone with a British accent pontificating about vaginas and a wackadoodle crowd that included Adam Horovitz and Kathleen Hanna, Parker Posey, Natasha Lyonne and — wait for it — Monica Lewinsky.
The clothes suited the atmosphere, an insular collection for an insular crowd, some of it quite charming — such as the denim and shearling jacket, the peacoat with hands embroidered at the pockets, and the handloomed sweaters with shaggy fringe around the shoulders — and some of it cloyed like a cliché, like the abundance of clogs.