The Clothes: Showgoers who made it to the rooftop of the Skylight at the McKittrick Hotel were transported all aboard the Skaist-Taylor Express. Models flirted and walked through an abandoned country traincar and along weathered wooden rail tracks. Underneath low-strung flags, editors sat at worn-in tables and benches with rainbow pinwheels, bowls of limes, and Read more →

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Descending into the underbelly of Lincoln Center’s parking garages for the Skaist-Taylor presentation felt uncharacteristic of the California lifestyle that former Juicy Couture designers Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor are well-loved for. This was clearly a new leaf, one created in the eighteen months since the duo officially departed from their inaugural brand that’s now owned and operated by Liz Claiborne.

The designers are two peas in a pod—both decked out in shorn chiffon skirts, some sort of riff on a t-shirt, giant furs, and pin-straight intentionally-streaked hair. “It’s high and low and very layered, it’s everything we like,” the duo explained of their new collection which uncannily resembled their personal wardrobe styling, right down to the lip gloss worn by the models. There were long tiered skirts, oversized mink pieces, purposeful day dresses and of course, loungewear. “We have something called California cashmere and we’re obsessed with sweatpants and California luxury,” they explained.

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