{"id":230265,"date":"2019-09-10T00:32:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T04:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=230265"},"modified":"2019-09-10T00:32:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T04:32:32","slug":"laquan-smith-brings-sexy-back-in-ny-fashion-week-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/10\/laquan-smith-brings-sexy-back-in-ny-fashion-week-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"LaQuan Smith brings sexy back in NY Fashion Week collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LaQuan Smith turned to cowboys and bikers for spring-summer inspiration, bringing a sexy edge to his designs at New York Fashion Week. (File Photo<\/a>: laquan_smith\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014\u00a0LaQuan Smith turned to cowboys and bikers for spring-summer inspiration, bringing a sexy edge to his designs at New York Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

The designer made liberal use of animal prints, Western influences and unconventional cutouts.<\/p>\n

There were pants reminiscent of riding chaps in a cow print with a cutout in the front and metallic snakeskin short shorts with a matching bandeau top under a snakeskin trench. Models wore black Western hats, transparent pointed-toe heels, cowboy boots and graphic tees saying, “I will not, not be rich”\u00a0and “Jordan Smith Hoedown.”<\/p>\n

“It’s all about female empowerment,”\u00a0Smith said Sunday at his show. “One of my favourite films is ‘Showgirls,’ so I just wanted to pull just these different elements of just what sexy represents and what that looks like.”<\/p>\n

Smith said he wants to promote “a strong sense of identity, which basically is just unapologetic.”<\/p>\n

“Right now we are living in such a world where it’s sportswear \u2014\u00a0you put on a suit and white sneakers and that’s considered sportswear, which I’m OK with,”\u00a0he said. “But I think as a designer right now in the market, I want to really bring back sexy and I just feel like that’s missing.”<\/p>\n

Trevor Jackson, who co-stars in “grown-ish,”\u00a0tried to help on that front during his first runway walk, donning a men’s blouse in a sheer tiger stripe design.<\/p>\n

“This is kind of like, hoedown, kind of the style,”\u00a0Jackson said. “I’m super excited. Everybody is so beautiful and the clothes are so dope and I can’t wait for the people to see it.”<\/p>\n

Models Slick Woods, Halima Aden and Winnie Harlow also walked in the show.<\/p>\n

Aden, who also walked for Smith last year, is a huge admirer.<\/p>\n

“I love how he’s like, he still dresses me modestly but it’s young, it’s cool, it’s edgy,”\u00a0said Aden, who is Muslim. “I always feel like a rock star.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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