Ella Emhoff Made Her Runway Debut at New York Fashion Week

Regardless of the whole lot, we’re formally within the midst of New York Vogue Week. And whereas the entrance rows and hordes of road fashion stars are lacking, as typical, no less than one mannequin has had a breakout second. On Thursday morning, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez premiered a video of the autumn 2021 Proenza Schouler runway present, which passed off on the Parrish Artwork Museum on Lengthy Island earlier this week. It featured simply 9 fashions—certainly one of whom was none apart from Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Emhoff’s runway debut comes lower than a month after she established her trend cred on Inauguration Day in a costume by Batsheva and bedazzled coat by Miu Miu. Just like the day’s different breakout star, poet laureate Amanda Gorman, she then signed to IMG Fashions, becoming a member of a roster that features supers like Karlie Kloss and Gigi Hadid. Up till then, the 21-year-old Parsons Faculty of Design scholar had largely modeled her personal designs; she makes knitwear, and usually raffles items on Instagram to profit fundraising teams like For the Gworls. (Her designs can be found on the web retailer Mall, which Emhoff additionally posed for, as of this week.)

Proenza Schouler’s newest assortment was additionally heavy on knitwear, accented with leather-based items like a belted trench coat that Emhoff wore atop a jersey turtleneck. She had three appears in complete, certainly one of which was a blazer worn sans shirt. An identical look turned up on one other scion within the solid: Meadow Walker, the daughter of the late actor Paul Walker.

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