On the way to the Off-White show, after a slice at Petee’s Pie Company on Delancey, I passed a line of teenagers waiting for an event, the guys in low-riding jeans and athletic shirts, the girls in as little as possible. IB Kamara, the designer of Off-White, was holding his show on the rooftop gym of the nearby New Design High School, and as I went down a hallway with other guests to the roof, we were greeted with cheers from students gathered to watch our little fashion parade.

It was nothing, of course, compared to what Kamara put on. He’d arranged to have corrugated metal sheets painted with big lavender and pink flowers and layered with graffiti. And that served as a backdrop for a collection that, in color and graphic sharpness, reflected significant aspects of the city, like its e

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