Anna Delvey, the infamous “Soho grifter”, was not going to miss out on New York fashion week because of an ankle bracelet and home detention. So fashion came to her, or more precisely to the rooftop of her East Village apartment.
In what has been judged an excitement-starved start to September’s round of fashion weeks, it was Delvey’s mission to shake it up by hosting Shao, an emerging young designer, in a chaotic show under stormy skies that organisers feared would be shut down by the police before it even began.
