Doja Cat silently hangs out, Met attendance figures, partying in Paris

JUST CHILLING: Doja Cat kicked off her New York Fashion Week weekend Friday morning at Pier 45. musician, wearing a light blue dress and coordinated makeup, passed through the downtown premises to watch the sunny Bronx and Banco outdoor parade. While there "just to chill" (i.e. not do any press), the singer bravely posed for the photographers as her two bodyguards lurked nearby. Next, the singer walked over to designer Natalie De'Banco, who was taking a group photo after the show with all of her models. "An incredible sight," said Doja Cat, before weaving through the West Side Highway and into the black SUV waiting on Christopher Street.

"Is this a fashion show we just missed?" asked a spectator outside his parked delivery truck, watching the crowd of spectators in the brand's evening wear pass by, on their way to their next show. "Oh, no."

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Doja Cat will headline an evening for Heaven by Marc Jacobs in Brooklyn on Saturday , where she performed with Kaytranada and Charli XCX. — KRISTEN TAUER

WHAT YEAR: While millions wouldn't want to go back in the past 12 months for obvious pandemic reasons, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has taken a count and has a lot to show.

Last fall, the Upper East Side Museum unveiled the first part of "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" to much fanfare. The exhibition was a kind of vocabulary on American fashion that highlighted a multitude of designers, including many young, emerging and little known. In March, 70% of the exhibit was refreshed so that the work of approximately 35 designers could be added to the rotation.

The second part of the year-long show bowed in the spring. Titled "In America: An Anthology of Fashion," it examined some of the intricacies of American fashion history and was staged in the period rooms of the museum's American Wing. Spanning from the 18th century to the present day, Part Two drew on the talents of renowned filmmakers such as Sofia Coppola, Chloe Zhao, Martin Scorsese, Janicza Bravo and Tom Ford, among others.

A preview of the Met exhibition "America: An Anthology of Fashion". Masato Onoda/WWD

It seems the Costume Institute's first year-long exhibition was well worth the wait. While the 12-month period was planned before the pandemic, the timing turned out to be fortuitous since, as with many museums large and small, attendance at the Met had been reduced during the pandemic...