“The inspiration behind this collection came from this moment that I had on the street where I saw someone out of the corner of my eye walking by — I sort of caught what she was wearing and registered it, but then I did a double take and realized it was something completely different,” Joseph Altuzarra explained ahead of his pretty spring salon show, held once again at his brand’s Woolworth Building headquarters. The fleeting image got him thinking about today’s hyper reality and modern surrealism — what’s real and what’s fake, or analogue versus artificial intelligence?

“That we live in this bizarre, fun house world where we can’t really tell what things are, there was something about that that really attracted me,” he explained of his inspiration, which translated into romantic styles t

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