Boston Fashion Week: The lowdown

GQ magazine may have named Boston the worst-dressed city in America this past summer, but that was forgotten the week of Sept. 23 when Boston Fashion Week came to town. However, the style celebration drew mixed reviews from Northeastern’s student fashion group, Haute Fashion.

Bianca Gracie, a middler communications studies major tory burch red sparkly and president of Haute, said this year represented a marked improvement in the quality of Fashion Week.

This improvement was shown most notably with “The Tent,” a centralized location for many of the fashion shows, set up between the Prudential Center and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

“The organizers have been looking at other fashion weeks around the world and trying to pinpoint what would work in Boston,” she said.

The Tent, Gracie said, gave Fashion Week a more “unified” feel, as in past years shows took place in various venues across the city. Despite these improvements, some Haute members, Gracie included, still feel that Fashion tory burch sale riding boots Week has a long way to go.

Gracie, who attended shows by Uruguay-born designer Victoria Dominguez Bagu, Boston-based Emily Muller and contemporary fashion label Lily and Migs, said the only show she really identified with was Lily and Migs, whose line featured college staples like skinny jeans, tank tops and party dresses.

“I liked the mix of the girly clothes with the really funky, edgy rock and roll music. They really created an atmosphere,” she said.

Both Gracie and club treasurer, sophomore business major Stephanie Zhang, said they weren’t thrilled with the conservative, older styles of Bagu’s show.

“I was kind of confused as to what season it was for,” Zhang said. “I thought it was for spring, but it was actually for fall. So that probably isn’t a good thing.”

Zhang also explained she and her fellow Haute members in attendance were able to move up a few rows due to lackluster attendance at Bagu’s show.

“They have to make [the shows] more known to the public and have more events open to the public,” she said.

Fellow club member and sophomore business major Sarah tory burch reva gold flat Darrow was unimpressed with the Lily and Migs show. She said Fashion Week as a whole needs improvement.