For New York designer, Frederick Anderson, romance is alive and well as showcased in his Fall 2025 collection at NYFW this week. Taking inspiration from Northern Africa, the Bomba music of Puerto Rico, Spain in the early 19th Century, and a special guest performance from opera star and Grammy-winner, J'Nai Bridges, he brings passionate emotion, rebellion, individualism, and a hint of '90s grunge to his clothes.
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00:00So beautiful, so sexy, so feminine. I love all the flowing beautiful silks. I mean, there
00:12were so many pieces. I love that the bolero is back. I could say I've always loved boleros.
00:18Really for me, this collection was about the continuation of my journey. I went from Africa
00:23in spring to Puerto Rico, and then taking the African influence again and moving it
00:27through the moors up through southern Spain, and mixed with the idea that I feel like we
00:31need a little romance. We need a little looking back to the romantic period. When everything
00:36was moving too fast, they took a moment to reflect, to talk about beauty a little.
00:40Well, lace is my home. I mean, I love lace. I always dabble in it. This time, I just went
00:45deep because if you go to Spain, you have to do lace. I took the Chantilles, and I kind
00:48of morphed them and shaped them and moved them with satins and different textures. I
00:52took this moray to me that felt like I was at one of the plazas in Spain and mixed it
00:57together and put it on top of a little 90s punk. And mixing that together in my little
01:02mind made it into something that harkens to a period, but it doesn't look like a period.
01:07You stay modern, you stay very young and fresh. Proportioned little crop jacket boleros I'm
01:11really liking right now. There are several silhouettes within the show that I think are
01:15exciting and new, you know, the longer, midi thing for day.
01:19Oh, my God. J'Nai. J'Nai Bridges is just beyond. She's like the foremost amazing opera singer
01:28right now, two-time Grammy winner, and she brings it. And she's a friend, you know, and
01:32she's good.
01:38It's sleek and chic. It's extra glossy, extra shiny. Well, he's got sort of a southern Spanish
01:46vibe going, so we went for that sort of flamenco look. We shellacked it, smoothed it, ponytailed
01:53it, braided it, and rolled it.
01:56The look today is quite dramatic. It's like a little goth, but in a very glamorous way.
02:00We're also kind of making them look quite flawless, a little bit like mannequins. So
02:04we're doing a little highlight on the body. They look a little sheeny. They need to be
02:08looking sort of perfect, but with little imperfections, like maybe they've been out all night, but
02:13their makeup still stayed on. I think once you see everything come together, you'll understand
02:17why we chose this makeup. So we really kind of pushed the eye, doing a full makeup, so
02:21an eye, a lip, blush, highlight, and it's really nice to be able to do that backstage
02:25at Fashion Week as well.