INTERIOR – FW24 Just Like We Never Said Goodbye

For Fall/Winter 2024, Interior has set their woman amidst the heyday of New York City nightlife during the 1970’s, 80’s, and 90’s – – a time when places like Studio 54, Danceteria, Tunnel, AREA, Palladium, and Limelight served as democratic environments in which people’s visual personas were fostered and celebrated for authenticity rather than an ability to assimilate.

By juxtaposing various club-going archetypes of the era (the painter, the model, the corporate yuppie, the writer, the socialite heiress, the off-duty ballerina, the musician, the fading actress, the 80’s call girl, the grunge club kid) – – all of whom marched to the beat of their own aesthetic drum – – the collection offers a counter to the monolithic style standards of today’s algorithm-driven world in which sameness seems to be the ultimate goal.

As always, Interior has taken the clothes of this season’s ensemble cast and filtered them through a distorted, off-killer lens: the lines of a pinstripe suiting fabric are dashed and broken, an ethereal chiffon gown unravels into tatters as the hem, a cut of mangy shearling adorns the collar of an otherwise traditionally tailored overcoat.

Today’s presentation features a soundtrack that has been intentionally muffled to mimic the sound of house music reverberating through a wall, and the entire space has been wrapped in an optic white polyester tarp. The intention is to create a “non-space” space that evokes the same feeling of a late twentieth century nightclub in NYC, all of which ultimately served as containers for the expression of the people within them.