Longtime designer Norma Kamali is inspired by male-energy for Fall. Bringing back a bit of the past, Bob Dylan style, hats--fedoras in particular, adorning most all of her looks. Black, brown and green further inspire the menswear theme with nature prints on long, fitted dresses and hooded jackets. Kamali also shows plenty of buttery vegan leathers.
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00:00The interesting thing about the collection is that it has three inspirations.
00:11The first inspiration is this masculine energy.
00:16There's a lot of masculine energy in women, too.
00:19The beauty of masculine energy in women is that we also have this feminine balance.
00:26As you can see, this whole group here is a tribute to masculine energy.
00:31The second part is I was working on this print, a tree print that is in the exhibit here.
00:41I did this print in the 70s, and I did it in sleeping bag coats.
00:45I thought, oh, it just feels right to have this nature thing again.
00:51I feel like we need to connect.
00:53We were working on it, doing all the samples, and then these fires.
00:57It was overwhelming to see all of that happening, and here I am, like, sewing up these trees.
01:18And then the third is Bob Dylan.
01:21He and I are close in age, but not that close.
01:24We're a little generation apart, so I never really was into Dylan.
01:31Later on, maybe about 10, 15 years ago, I started seeing him in concert and then seeing
01:38his philosophy about how he should look, too, when he's performing.
01:44The hats he was wearing, I was like, I did hats for so many years.
01:48I had a license with Stetson, and it's so cool because you see somebody wearing a hat.
01:54Like, why are they wearing that?
01:55What do they think?
01:56Like, something that's telling a story about a person.
02:00I thought, you know what?
02:02It's time for hats again, so I pulled out some of my hats from my collection.
02:06We got more.
02:07We got more Stetson hats.
02:09I think it goes back to masculine energy.
02:12Hello, there she is.
02:13I think it's also fun to wear hats.
02:17I would say, personally, of what I would wear, if the turtleneck with the long skirt
02:24is something I would wear for an evening thing.