"[I]t is increasingly clear that it is almost impossible to think about New York Fashion Week and what happens on the runway without thinking, to varying extents, about Mr. Trump."

"He — the world he has currently created — is the prism through which everything is seen, and evaluated. There’s just no getting away from it," writes Vanessa Friedman — humorously, I hope! — in the NYT.

And if that is a given, then the question we have to ask ourselves is not should fashion react to Trump, but rather: What is the role of fashion under Trump?...

At Public School, the designers Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow... said... the show was about “constantly examining your beliefs, values and privileges and matching your intent to your action”....

Victoria Beckham summed it up when she said (during a preview before her show), “The world is so confused right now, I just want to make my customer feel secure.” In the end, the job of fashion should be to make a woman feel confident in her clothes — feel like a stronger version of herself — so she can proactively think about something else....

The most original part of the [Alexander Wang] collection was where he put the majority of his verbiage: on sheer tights that blared “No after-party” up the thigh. That at least echoed a certain truth. This is not a time for fiddling, after all....

No pussy-grabbing either, whatever is "blar[ing] up the thigh." No time for fiddling, America is busy going mad.

AND: Don't miss the "Make America Great Again" dress at the Grammys.