Alaïa’s perfect volumes at NYFW
A return to New York and Rihanna in the front row: Pieter Mulier struck hard to present the spring-summer 2025 collection of Maison Alaïa.
Forty-two years ago, Azzedine Alaïa presented a show in New York at Bergdorf Goodman, with Pat Cleveland and Alva Chin on the catwalk. For his own show in New York, Alaïa ’s creative director, Pieter Mulier , chose an equally iconic venue: the Guggenheim, whose curvilinear Frank Lloyd Wright ramp has served as a runway for today’s models, from Kendall Jenner to Vittoria Ceretti . It featured hooded dresses and richly pleated miniskirts, a play on volume and abstraction, playfulness and chic.