With guests huddled behind metal barricades, models emerged from a graffitied portaloo in the West Village, wading through a runway strewn with dollar bills, plastic bottles, and cardboard. It was the 21st anniversary of 9/11 and Victor Barragán’s post-pandemic return looked to the American notion of “business as usual”, which the Latin American designer believes is enmeshed with all the reserve of whiteness – a point he articulated with an all-white cast of models.
Photography Hatnim Lee
