At Fashion Week, Opposition to Trump Is Alive and Well on the Runway

For some designers, sustainability, gender and inclusion are still in style.

“I started designing this before the election,” Joseph Altuzarra said on the Saturday of New York Fashion Week, gesturing at his collection. “And then, as things began to unfold, we started changing things.”

Like the knit skirts paired with military pea coats and martinet tweeds that, he said, “started with really cute little small fringed edges” and then exploded into bulbous pompoms of yarn. Like the diamond crystals on a crisp white halter dress, which were originally “tiny studs, and then they became almost rocks.” Just as the shoulders on his bias-cut silk gowns became Joan Crawford-sharp, and the funnel

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