Eco-Gothic Sanctuary by Collina Strada for F/W 26-27, New York Fashion Week | FashionTV | FTV

Step out of the shadows, it’s time to find your sanctuary in the beautifully bizarre, radically transparent world of Collina Strada unveiled at New York Fashion Week! Hillary Taymour named her new show “The World Is a Vampire”, and who’s going to argue with her? Certainly nobody in the crowd of Collina Strada girlies she assembled tonight, many of whom were wearing her bug-eye sunglasses inside. The F/W 26-27 collection imagines this retreat with a gothic, ethereal grace. Snow falls delicately inside satin-lined snow globes, far from the "crusty banks of slippery, nasty ice" on the real New York streets. Models wrapped in translucent layers and rising organza collars suggested a protective, almost Victorian elegance repurposed for the modern activist. We start to fade from the mirror because we don’t reflect this brutal world; we’re only seen on our own terms. The world is trying to turn us, but we’re hanging on to humanity, even as our fangs sharpen with disillusionment. Despite all our rage, we are still just bats in a cage - but at least our fur is plant-based and our cage is Collina.