You can bet on Collina Strada’s Hillary Taymour to bring a sense of joy and wit to her work, inviting guests to an East Side helipad to show her collection outdoors with Brooklyn as a backdrop. As a haunting music choir music began and “this is not a democracy” was heard over the loudspeaker, it was clear she has much to say.

“Beyond a shadow of a doubt, we are living in an era of crisis. Humanity’s darkest impulses no longer lurk in abstraction; they are taking concrete form. Our shadows walk among us,” her show notes read of her runway of dualities with each model coming with a “shadow“ twin in the same garment in all black with a lace face covering, walking alongside them.

“It’s the darkness that’s kind of lingering around right now that push and pull and how to react to that and like

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