Last fall, had some time to finally check out NYFW a bit and capture it on film. Definitely a small handful of photographers out there during fashion week shooting film and even smaller shooting Super 8 and Polaroids so figured it’d be something a bit outside of the standard. Even managed to get backstage at the Kid Super show to shoot some Super 8!
Spring Street Studios in SoHo is the main location for many of the fashion shows since it split up it’s single location shows that used to be held in Lincoln Center. This makes for a variety of strange and interesting locations like the COACH show I went to on the highline and the Kid Super fashion show inside an under construction building in Williamsburg.
Like my friend and fashion street style photographer, Dan Bassini, I didn’t have an invite to any of the shows (until a last minute favor from a friend for the Kid Super show) so I primarily strolled around the areas where the shows were to grab some portraits. I primarily shot with my Polaroid 110B which definitely drew a lot of surprised looks as well as a Mamiya C330 medium format camera, also a looker. Without autofocus and all manual, it required some waving of the cameras and polite requests to get portraits but in the end, was worth it. The Super 8 I shot outside of Spring was a casual but fun avenue to get “moving portraits” of the models.
The COACH show at the highline was truly a mass of big names and people attending and the crowd showed. Anna Wintor and a variety of other larger names outside of my knowledge passed through the crowd to attend the show.
With Kid Super, an NYC friend happened to be producing the show and managed to get me backstage of the show featuring the hip-hop artist, Action Bronson, to shoot some Super 8 and 35mm BTS. Was a dope show featuring garments made entirely out of recycled fabrics. It was a weekend highlight. Shot some quick 35mm shots during and after the show of the people and outfits at that show and there were some real standouts.
Was just at it again this year, with a few custom Instax cameras and 35mm cameras so hopefully posting those soon!