“The collection is about art and expression—and the fusion of those two things. We also explored the idea that apparel should reflect the many sides of a woman—she’s never just one thing. The overall result is a juxtaposition between feminine and hard-edge artistry,” -Torrid designers Liz Munoz and Kim Sippl.
The show represented the Torrid woman as she is today. Bold, beautiful and badass. There looks were filled with hard edge corsets, leather moto jackets, flowy capes, flower tops and other feminine pieces. This created a contrast of hard and soft to encompasses the many sides of a woman.
The collection was also peppered with signature, hand-painted elements. NYX Professional Makeup’s neutral palette and Redken’s loose waves enhanced each girls’ natural features, along with shimmering gold nails courtesy of Essie.
The Torrid runway show also served as a showcase for the brand’s third annual Model Search competition, serving as the semi-final competitive round for the top 10 finalists. These finalists hit the runway before going on to the third and final round of competition, where the winner is chosen by Torrid friends and fans.
You can see some fear in the girls and their walk but hey this is fashion week...wouldn't you be scared too!!!
These brave ladies who are seeking to earn the “Face of Torrid” title did an great job and their family and friends in the audience must be so proud of them. Cant wait to see who won the title.
Overall it was a great to have Torrid show during fashion week. Could there be some improvement, yes but this is the first showing during fashion week and mistakes in whos invited, whose sitting front row is going to happen. Yes the show was ready to wear and some may think that is not fashion week like but as a community I think it was a very good show and a very good thing. Torrid stayed true to their brand of rocker chic and I thought they showed many trends seen in other fashion week shows that would apply to their brand.
Some may think that is not good because they are not following the status but isn't this the industry that locked us out for TOO MANY years!!!! Lets applaud our effort not compare and give each other a hand praise when women closer to our body type make their way down the runway. So yes, Torrid showed ready to wear but lets applaud the fact they were at nyfw before criticizing they were at nyfw.
photo credit Dan Lecca &BFA
