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Our Favorite Looks from the Nordstrom Designer Preview
The high-style set convened for a night of fall fashions, fabulousness
By Lauren Mang August 20, 2015
Racks and racks of beautiful garments lined the polished concrete floors at Pier 91, site of the annual Nordstrom Designer Preview Fashion Show, held on Thursday, July 23. Thirty-five models dressed in pieces from the dreamy fall collections of Christian Dior, Stella McCartney, Valentino and Dries Van Noten, to name a few, strutted their stuff down a runway as guests scribbled notes, snapped photos and took mental notes of which designs were destined for their wardrobes.
The sold-out event, now in its 29th year, draws more than 500 well-heeled partygoers, including Tank Magazine fashion director and Nordstrom collaborator Caroline Issa, Refinery29 senior style editor Annie Georgia Greenberg, event co-chairs Olga Dyckman and Alida Oles and Seattle Art Museum president Julia Younker. A post-runway show shopping sesh–complete with flutes of bubbly and trays of desserts–rounded out the evening.
This year’s Designer Preview helped raise more than $200,000 for the Seattle Art Museum’s upcoming exhibit Intimate Impressionism from the Gallery of Art, which opens October 1.
Herewith, some of our favorite looks from the fete and the runway show.
Neutral faux fur look from Stella McCartney
Oscar de la Renta
Christian Dior
Roksanda
Valentino
Undercover
Lanvin
Valentino
Valentino
Valentino
Valentino
Roy Luwolt and Mary Alice Malone, founder/creative director and co-founder/managing director of Malone Souliers
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