On his brand Instagram account, Alexander Wang is offering Wangovers to tourists and locals he meets in the South Street Seaport neighborhood where he’s headquartered. It’s compulsively watchable content, not least of all because the people who agree to his proposals aren’t typical Wang customers. He’s made over a Bronx granny and a Westchester mom and a Connecticut construction worker with hair, makeup, and a new wardrobe—the works—and when he’s done with them you can just about believe that any one of them is making it past the bouncer and into the club.
Wang’s press materials outline his new resort collection’s fundamentals as holiday dressing, subverted suiting, and velour tracksuits, but in palette, silhouette, and styling these clothes are all in fact club ready. Or maybe make that avatar ready? The designer said he and his team were inspired by “hyper-extended AI realities” to create what he described as a “computer generated look.” The concept comes across most clearly in the bandage dresses with honeycombs of peekaboo cutouts that seem to defy gravity, but it also applies to the exaggerated shape of a goat hair hoodie and the boots that look like extensions of the legs.