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Chloe Mac Donnell in New York

New York fashion week kicks off at city’s public library

A Peta protester holds a sign reading ‘Coach: Leather Kills’ on the runway during the Coach spring/summer 2024 show during New York fashion week
A Peta protester holds a sign on the runway during the Coach spring/summer 2024 show at New York fashion week. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

Libraries are usually quiet places where people go to study or relax, but on Thursday night the American luxury brand Coach broke from protocol when it kicked off New York fashion week by staging its spring/summer 2024 collection at the New York Public Library, the second largest public library in the US.

Instead of shushing librarians and hardback chairs, there were plush velvet lined benches and celebrities including the actor Jennifer Lopez and the rapper Lil Nas X.

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