Everybody loves figure skating. Well, most of us do. If you are Leanne Marshall, the two loves of her life are fashion and figure skating.
That said, since those two things are two of your favorite things, why not combine your two passions into a fashion collection? Leanne Marshall for her fall 2024 collection did just that.
Leanne Marshall chose to present her fall 2024 fashion collection on the Ice Rink at Bryant Park. And while some fashion industry professionals may consider this ice-skating presentation gimmicky, for Leanne Marshall there was no better venue that would show off the movement quality of her garments than the Ice Rink at Bryant Park. (Fashion industry professionals are always chatting about how a garment moves. You can’t get garments to move any better than skating on an ice rink.)
“I often think about my first time there, 15 years ago when I showed my winning Project Runway collection in Bryant Park during fashion week. NYFW was something else quite spectacular when it was held in Bryant Park, and I am so happy and honored to have experienced that. My NYC fashion career was kind of born there some 15 years ago, and I get that same surreal magical feeling whenever I skate there now,” says Marshall.
Leanne Marshall’s fall 2024 consists of flowy, diaphanous dresses embellished with ruffles, a few sequins. These flowy dresses come in bold pastel colors. And these whimsical dresses evolved from similar garments that Marshall was creating her showroom that she wore to her ice-skating lessons.
“The dopamine high of skating around in a flowy dress: I 10 out of 10 recommend! This natural high led to an idea to do a show or photo shoot where she could have pro skaters wearing her collection and she would watch them move in tandem with the fashions to create a new fashionable synergy. “Not wear them to compete or perform in,” explains the designer, “but more to explore the way they’d create movement and to capture that joy I’ve grown to love,” explained Marshall.
Images courtesy of VERY New York
Though this is a nontraditional approach to a fashion show, Marshall’s presentation provides lots of joy and smiles. And isn’t that one of the things that fashion is all about.
Marshall says it best, “My biggest purpose in designing anything is to bring a sense of joy and uplift to the wearer. We all need fun and play in our lives, now more than ever.”
Well said!!
William S. Gooch
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