Opening Ceremony’s evening at the New York City Ballet, held Saturday at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, was perhaps as poignant and engaging as a non-fashion fashion show could ever hope to be. Hitting the mark on several levels, it addressed a host of industry and broader political issues — see-now-buy-now, a creative show format, hope and fear in the Trump era — without forcing them.
In lieu of a standard fashion week fashion show, Opening Ceremony cofounders Humberto Leon and Carol Lim invited guests to a performance of “The Times Are Racing,” a new ballet by New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer Justin Peck for which Leon designed the costumes. They, in turn, inspired the spring 2017 Opening Ceremony collection. Set to music by composer and electronic musician Dan Deacon, the ballet is most untraditional, a fact underscored by the two pieces — “Fearful Symmetries” and “The Shimmering Asphalt,” both relatively classic in movement and their uniform costumes — that preceded it on the evening’s program.
Deacon’s score was the driving force behind “The Times Are Racing,” a story of American identity, and ultimately diversity, which premiered Thursday. It imagined strangers encountering each other on city streets. Peck’s contemporary
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