It’s been a decade since blogger Tavi Gevinson caused a stir by wearing an oversized bow to sit front row at Dior in 2013, and fashion editors are still fighting over who belongs at the shows. This past season, I’ve noticed a shift in this kind of complaining. It’s no longer just about who’s there; it’s about how much they deserve it. Do they have distinct personal style? Are they helping tell the story the brand is telling? Are they Rachel Sennott?
Seriously, I’ve been asking editors and insiders about the most exciting person they saw at the shows, and the name that keeps coming up is Sennott’s—along with those of her co-stars and friends Ayo Edebiri and Molly Gordon, who one fashion editor described to me as a “dream blunt rotation.” (Same.) At least five different people told me that they were celebrating the end of New York Fashion Week by finally going to see Sennott’s latest film Bottoms, which came out at the end of August. One friend said the thought of going to see the film early Saturday night at the Angelika Theater was the “absolute only thing” keeping her mental health in check. (Also same.)
I got to ask Sennott some questions, too; we chatted the morning after she attended the Kering Foundation’s Caring for Women Dinner as a guest of Balenciaga. When I inquired about what her fashion week was like, she said, “It was really crazy and it feels very special.”
The most “wild” thing to her is going to New York shows on the same streets she walked as a freshman at NYU, back when she didn’t get those kind of invites. “When you first get to NYU, you Google ‘fashion’ for the first time in your life and think, ‘Whoa, this is crazy,’” she said.
Sennott started college in 2014. “Which is right around when Demna was first with Balenciaga and Kim Kardashian was wearing the clothes,” she tells me. “Her style was changing. I remember that was the first time I was really…
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