Summer is here, officially. There are signs: There’s the solstice of course, and the L.G.B.T. Pride March. But there are more subtle markers around the city: conviviality on fire escapes; weekends that are thinner with locals and thicker with tourists; and no one wears a thing. This last ritual was challenged on June 23 as writers, agents and editors ambled uptown to celebrate the second anniversary of the literary magazine The Drift, hosted at the David Zwirner gallery on East 69th Street. Guests in demure dress listened to speeches from The Drift’s editors, the novelist Joshua Cohen and a beshorted Hilton Als, who curated the gallery’s current show of Frank Walker’s work.
On the afternoon of June 24, as things got muggier, the Consulate-General of Sweden hosted its annual Midsummer Festival in Battery Park. Nordic families and their friends gathered on blankets and danced around the midsummer pole, some adorned with flower crowns. Across the East River, models and budding fashionistas crowded against barricades on Pier 1 to witness New Wave New York, a fashion show presented by MADE, an IMG-owned platform that incubates young fashion talent, and the Public School label that first showed with MADE 10 years ago. The show presented works of five young design talents, and was followed by an after-party at 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge. As the fashion show ended, the rapper Nas belted out his verses from a barge that bobbed alongside the pier. A gentle rain picked up. A man in a beret and tank top passionately kissed another under its cooling drops. June is already done. Imagine that.
“Afro-influence is everything. Everywhere you look there is some Black influence, including punk.” — Thai Richards, a fitness model who attended the MADE party.
“I took the pictures. I made the jacket so I could wear them.” — Nathaly Delacruz
“I’m feeling these chameleon jungle greens lately, and Yves Klein blues.” — Pari Ehsan
The Most Dressed features great outfits from up, down and all around town.
