New York Fashion Week Fall 2000 by Susan Redstone Photography by Visko Hatfield Click on image to see bigger photo or send it as a postcard. We headed to the Altman Building on West 18th Street to see the Nautica collection by David Chu. The venue is laid out with a really informal seating pattern of small wooden stools and floor cushions. Hot cider and hot chocolate is a nice hospitality touch that enhances the informal vibe and perfectly fits the message that Chu is trying to send. The barrier between wardrobes for work and play continues to blur reads Chu s show program.
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All thirty-six looks streamed down the runway with barely a pause for photographers. Blink and you d miss a trick. The show must have lasted all of five minutes. The few memorable nanoseconds included chunky honey wool sweaters, a red pepper and gray polyester hooded pullover with slate nylon elbows and a brown polyurethane coated cotton shirt with a very cool quilted back. There were lots of zip front sweaters and jackets in olive, black and gray and long chunky wool scarves in colors like burgundy as accessories.