Peter Do's Helmut Lang Post-Show After-Party Went Late Late Into the Night

Peter Do’s debut at Helmut Lang ranked among the most anticipated moments of fashion week. Do did not disappoint. Tailoring, streetwear, and bondage fused together in a dazzling debut. The excitement did not stop after the runway show. At Boom atop the Standard, High Line (where else?), all the cool kids came to celebrate.

The Austrian-born Helmut Lang helped shape the minimalism that characterized the 1990s.  He relied on unusual materials, including rubber and metallics, that tested the conventions of textiles. While his contemporaries (Tom Ford, Gianni Versace, Marc Jacobs, etc.) leaned heavily into pageantry, Lang leaned away from fashion shows as spectacle. He focused on the clothes and the people who wore them. Lang left the company in 2005. Peter Do, in his first moments at the brand's helm, seems to capture that spirit with a relatively low-key celebration. The party felt casual, with everyone dancing, laughing, and catching up.

ZHU, Kim Anh, and Oscar Nñ turned tracks. Moses Sumney, Deon Hinton, Chloe Wise, and Alexander Roth were some of the creative characters who came to toast Do. K-Pop stars Tiffany Young and Eric Nam also came to support.

There was an unexpected return to the ’90s and early aughts: flip phones. Waiters circulated the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 on silver platters along with cocktails. Guests gleefully posed and snapped selfies with the retro-inspired gadgets.