NEW YORK (AP) – The best seats in the house Tuesday for the men’s runway show by Public School weren’t seats at all. And they weren’t in the house.
Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow set up a sidewalk strut for their models to the delight of waiting design students and other fans just outside the doors of Milk Studios on the sunny second day of New York Fashion Week: Men’s. The standers got the first look before models meandered back inside to a packed crowd of industry insiders.
“Outside was fun,” Osborne said. “The idea was to give people that front-row access, but the concept was also … the outside looking at the inside and the inside looking at the outside – and everybody gets their fair shot.”
As young design students in New York, did Osborne and Chow hope for the same?
“We’re still young design students,” Chow smiled. “I don’t think that there really was that many opportunities for us to sort of have access, which is why we wanted to be able to do this.”