6 political statements from New York Fashion Week

From feminist protest tees to putting a liberal spin on a familiar red cap, designers turned the semi-annual fashion show into a ready-to-protest showcase

Models walk the runway for the Public School collection during, New York Fashion Week.
(Image credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

In President Trump's America, it often seems that politics bleed into all aspects of our lives. Fashion is no exception.

Typically, New York Fashion Week is largely about designers showing off their work and setting trends for the upcoming year. But at this year's show, which just wrapped up, fashion week got awfully political.

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Ricky Soberano

Ricky Soberano is the social media editor at TheWeek.com. Her writing has appeared in Complex, Nylon, Gothamist, Maxim, and others. Previously she was the culture editor for The Stony Brook Press and contributing editor for The Odyssey. She has a B.A. in multidisciplinary studies in journalism and dance from Stony Brook University and an A.S. in dance from Queensborough Community College. She's lived in Brooklyn her whole life, eats too much ramen, and freelance models, and she enjoys writing about the undiscovered and underreported within the sphere of culture. Follow her on Twitter.