After decamping to Madrid as an international guest at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Silvia Tcherassi was back home in New York at the Nino Mier gallery with her pre-fall collection.

The Tcherassi woman is a perpetual globe-trotter and this season, she grabbed her passport and headed into the desert. Asked if there was any one in particular, Tcherassi’s daughter and design director Sofia spoke along abstract lines. She could be in the Sahara or the Gobi, it doesn’t matter. “We were more inspired by the contrast of the desert. It has this softness, but also this harshness. It’s super hot, but it can get super cold, too,” she said.

In this age of climate crisis, dressing for extreme weather is something designers are paying more attention to, and it’s a fitting exercise for pre-fall, given

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