New York Fashion Week

Services

UX / UI / Interactions

Client

WME Fashion

The Brief

NYFW is the preeminent New York Fashion Week destination. They needed a slick website which showcased all of thereAn incredible new website for the biggest fashion event in the world.

As the largest and most prestigious fashion event in the world the NYFW Team wanted a website that matched their status. Through a collaborative process with NYFW & IMG we designed a site that looks super slick and presents the shows as a premier fashion event. A seminal project for myself to lead on the visual ideation, UX and UI for the NYFW website. Naturally this was a very nervous time working with such a huge name and working with the team in NYC was great experience for me, understanding how to manage senior stakeholders, design vision and usability was the key takeaway and one that aided me in my development massively.

A year later, I also designed a livestream hub for NYFW: The Shows, where the user coild watch all of the seasons showings and catch up on thing's they've missed.

The video library was vast, the client requested a collection system so they could organise all of the years and brands. We then wove the collections into a browsable homepage with suggestions, giving priority to livestreams and page takeovers where necessary.

Takeaways

The key request for the site was to create a distinct separation between the designers and the more curated fashion alliance designers. We used interactive and immersive effects to showcase large photographic imagery of the designer, whilst also creating an intuitive full designer listings with quick links to specific designers.

NYFW has over 100 events on each fashion week and they needed a easy-to-use admin area to house all of these events. The result was a stylish schedule page that contains individual event listings with all the information needed to find your way. The schedule system was built bespoke to show off the large amount of amazing events that are on over the fashion week. This is all wrapped up in a stunning custom CMS that is easy to use and will benefit the NYFW team for years to come. The schedule links up seamlessly to designers profiles so everything is connected. We designed a seamless and interactive schedule view with expanding animations to tell the story of the NYFW designers.