Front row, first day, full speed: style authority and Summer Fridays co-founder Marianna Hewitt began her New York Fashion Week circuit at Ralph Lauren’s Spring/Summer 2027 show on Wednesday, reporting back for CULTURED on a collection stacked with odes to the classical Americana that made its name. As the day wore on, we followed Hewitt’s every move, chronicling a front-row veteran’s day-in-the-life as the pandemonium of fashion week kicked off, and gathering her thoughts along the way.
Off to the show.
We made it! Grabbed a few photos before going into the space.
Waiting to see who my seat-mates are. I love reading the show notes before it begins to see what the inspiration is for what we’re about to see.
Loved my look for this show. I’m ready for the fall weather.
This tailoring is exactly why I keep coming back to Ralph Lauren every season. The fit is just so good.
I love everything about this.
This silhouette—the belting, the sleeves—I want to live in it.
And then they walked out. I gasped!
Still thinking about everything I just saw.
Show’s over, but the day isn’t!
Ending the day with dinner at the Polo Bar.
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