Interior is Tired of Algorithm-Driven Fashion, Too

From the muffled house music alone, you already had an inkling of what you were in for at Interior‘s Fall 2024 presentation, staged in a white polyester tarp-draped room during New York Fashion Week. If not for the lineup of models posing under bright fluorescent lights and the crowd of guests clamoring to get social content, for a second you’d think you’ve found yourself at a nightclub in lower Manhattan. That’s partly what designer Jack Miner was going for.

“Every season we look at our girl relative to Americana in one form or another,” he told Fashionista. “For this season, we looked at her relative to New York City nightlife in its heyday, which is really the late ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. It was a time when people’s visual personas were really valued for authenticity and distinction, versus an ability to assimilate.”

Each look highlights a different club-going archetype: the model (in a dark brown leather belted jacket and matching straight-leg pants); the musician (in a black scoop-neck ankle-length dress, with a three-dimensional sculptural waistband); or the actor (in a long-sleeved gold turtleneck maxi). These archetypes emphasizes how, whether these personas were at Palladium or Danceteria, they were welcome in these environments and appreciated for their authenticity.

“I find that today there’s this aesthetic flattening that happens as a result of social media,” Miner said. “The collection is really a counter to that phenomenon of assimilation that we see in a now-algorithm-driven world, where everyone drives to look alike. We’re observing our women at a time when people really were trying to be more authentic to whatever that meant for them.”

With this approach of having each look represent a different character (versus having a singular muse), the collection could feel confusing or not cohesive. But where Miner shines is in creating that desire in the customer to want to put on every single one of these personas, with their subversive interpretations of familiar styles (think a black pinstripe suit featuring dashed, broken lines or a navy chiffon gown that unravels into tatters at the hem).

The takeaway of it all, according to Miner? “That people feel inspired to dress in a way that’s authentic to who they are.”

See all the looks from Interior’s Fall 2024 collection below.

Interior Fall 2024. Photo: Courtesy of Interior