Brooklyn Designer Samantha Pleet Shows Urban Spies And Feathered Swimmers At New York Fashion Week

In case you haven't noticed, Brooklyn is having a moment. Now that all the young folk have migrated across the East River to places like Williamsburg—where concrete runway shows happen EVERYDAY down Bedford Street—new hubs of creative activity are churning out all kinds of KEWL labels, music, and collaborations in-between. (We like to imagine neon striped bees with bangs jamming out in their vintage adorned artisanal hives.) One of our favorite Brooklyn-based designers is Samantha Pleet, who we can attest, in her seven years in business, has single-handedly brought the romper back to the borough. Her New York Fashion Week shows are always low-key, musically-inclined, and RIFE with looks that end up trending all over stylin' ladies who shop at the Brooklyn Flea. This season she collaborated with singer Caroline Polachek from the Brooklyn band Chairlift to provide a pulsating soundtrack to the show. And if Pleet's new collection is any indication, we foresee spies in tribal necklaces and feather adorned synchronized swimmers frolicking around the cracked concrete streets come springtime.