From pro-immigrant runway statements to outrage over a designer's involvement with a Trump fundraiser, the fashion scene is getting political.
Last month’s news that Equinox and SoulCycle owner Stephen Ross would be hosting a Hamptons fundraiser for Donald Trump sent gym-goers into a frenzy, with petitions circulated, memberships canceled and boycotts threatened. But the billionaire’s Trump ties have also impacted New York Fashion Week — thanks in part to his wife’s style connections.
“Kara is going to be leaving the board,” he told WWD. “However, this has absolutely nothing to do with her political views or her [husband’s] fundraiser for Trump. “I was told ‘not our problem’ and to focus my energies elsewhere,” Lorenz wrote. “So I will. The annual membership dues and future high-priced tickets to awards will be spent fighting what this administration is destroying, specifically equal rights and climate change.”
“This is no longer about party lines, especially now with all the mass murders at the hands of domestic terrorists and white supremacists,” the Nepalese-American designer, who has previously dressed former first lady Michelle Obama, wrote in a lengthy Twitter thread calling out Ross. “Rather, this is a choice that one needs to make now. This is about choosing between two sides, the right or the wrong sides of the history.
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