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Post-show, a beaming Rachel Scott (crouching, at centre) shared a backstage moment with the models who walked for her inaugural Proenza Schouler collection.
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Post-show, a beaming Rachel Scott (crouching, at centre) shared a backstage moment with the models who walked for her inaugural Proenza Schouler collection.
Proenza Schouler Creative Director Rachel Scott (left) and music legend Lauryn Hill backstage at the former’s debut collection show, which opened New York Fashion Week (NYFW) last Wednesday.
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Proenza Schouler Creative Director Rachel Scott (left) and music legend Lauryn Hill backstage at the former’s debut collection show, which opened New York Fashion Week (NYFW) last Wednesday.
Joining in the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Michael Kors brand, Jamaican model stars Naki Depass (left) and Dru Campbell were spotted backstage ahead of the American designer’s Fall 2026 show at the Metropolitan Opera House last Thursday.
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Joining in the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Michael Kors brand, Jamaican model stars Naki Depass (left) and Dru Campbell were spotted backstage ahead of the American designer’s Fall 2026 show at the Metropolitan Opera House last Thursday.
SAINT’s Dru Campbell (right) backstage at the Coach Ready-To-Wear Fall 2026 show with (from left) Jack Rettig, Luke Lenski, and Elodie Guipaud. The show was hosted at the Cunard Building in downtown New York last Wednesday.
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SAINT’s Dru Campbell (right) backstage at the Coach Ready-To-Wear Fall 2026 show with (from left) Jack Rettig, Luke Lenski, and Elodie Guipaud. The show was hosted at the Cunard Building in downtown New York last Wednesday.
Lensed behind-the-scenes at Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2026 show at the Park Avenue Armory last Monday, The Rock’s Naki Depass (right) shared a frame with Chinese model peer Ruyu Chen.
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Lensed behind-the-scenes at Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2026 show at the Park Avenue Armory last Monday, The Rock’s Naki Depass (right) shared a frame with Chinese model peer Ruyu Chen.
Above left: Naki Depass in Look 37 from the bohemian-inspired Cinq à Sept Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear collection, titled La Célébration.
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Above left: Naki Depass in Look 37 from the bohemian-inspired Cinq à Sept Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear collection, titled La Célébration.
Jamaican SAINT star Naki Depass was on the shortlist of global models for designer Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2026 collection show titled Memory Loss staged at the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side.
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Jamaican SAINT star Naki Depass was on the shortlist of global models for designer Marc Jacobs’ Fall 2026 collection show titled Memory Loss staged at the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side.
After her turn for Chanel’s Haute Couture collection in Paris last month, former Pulse model and co-managing director Romae Gordon touched down on the runway for Scott’s Proenza Scholer’s show in Look 6.
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After her turn for Chanel’s Haute Couture collection in Paris last month, former Pulse model and co-managing director Romae Gordon touched down on the runway for Scott’s Proenza Scholer’s show in Look 6.
Left: Dru Campbell returned to the runway for womenswear designer Tory Burch’s Fall 2026 collection.
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Left: Dru Campbell returned to the runway for womenswear designer Tory Burch’s Fall 2026 collection.
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And so it began.

The trend-watching, month-long global showcase of designers’ fall 2026 ready-to-wear collections opened with New York Fashion Week (NYFW) last Wednesday.

First out the gate on the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s official schedule was newly installed Proenza Schouler creative director Rachel Scott’s show, heralded by insiders as the most anticipated of the season.

SCOTT TAKES FLIGHT

The CFDA-winning Jamaican designer – declared Emerging Designer of the Year in 2023 and American Womenswear Designer of the Year the following year – presented a 42-look collection at 145 Delancey Street in Manhattan that was her vision of the nuances of the modern-day woman.

“I wanted to find a way to really get close to this Proenza woman and understand her from a woman’s perspective,” Scott told Vogue in a backstage interview of the luxury brand she assumed creative control of from its male founders, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. “There is a lot more texture and complexity. I keep thinking that she is a woman who is deathly punctual... but maybe this morning, in this collection, she is running late, and she is okay with that. She is okay that she’s a little dishevelled but still precise.”

Speaking post-show to Albert Ayal of Up Next Designer, Scott told him there was not a Jamaican inspiration to her Proenza collection. “That part of me is very personal, and I really put that into my brand Diotima. But here, there are so many other sides to me. I am obsessed with film and philosophy. Someone incredible described it this morning as over at Proenza, it is very cerebral, and over at Diotima, it is visceral. I thought it was the nicest thing to say.”

Among the catwalkers for the hot-ticket show debut was resurgent Jamaican model Romae Gordon in Look 6, a grey bodycon Donegall dress. The designer was elated for The Rock connection. “She’s been a kind of angel for me,” raved Scott, whose latest Diotima collection is set to be unveiled today in the City That Never Sleeps.

HERE A SAINT, THERE A SAINT

Besides the Jamaican pair of Scott and Gordon kicking off NYFW, the black, green and gold was prominently represented by SAINT International’s in-demand faces on the runway.

Naki Depass booked catwalk turns for Marc Jacobs, TWP, and Cinq à Sept, ahead of joining her SAINT compatriot Dru Campbell for last Thursday’s 45th anniversary show for Michael Kors’ Fall 2026 collection, which was staged at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Campbell was back in The Big Apple for her second NYFW outing and secured repeat runway duties for Tory Burch and Coach.

As NYFW wraps tomorrow, Monday, on February 16, the Fashion Month baton will pass to London Fashion Week, which follows on February 19, then Milan on February 25, and ends in Paris, beginning March 2.

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