New York —

On Manhattan’s breezy piers, inside golden-hour lit warehouses and even in an Episcopal church: such locations served as the venue for runway shows, as New York Fashion Week kicks off a busy fashion month.

While a growing number of influential designers (Ralph Lauren, Carolina Herrera and Marc Jacobs, to name a few) are opting to show outside the official calendar, or not at all, the city still drew big stars to its front rows : see Gwyneth Paltrow and “White Lotus” actor Leslie Bibb at Michael Kors; or singer Rosalía, “Emily in Paris” star Lily Collins, and Jung Kook of BTS — whose fans flooded the streets to see him — at Veronica Leoni’s sophomore collection for Calvin Klein.

Later that evening, another round of blaring car horns sounded in Chinatown as guests attending

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