Rachel Comey put on her first New York Fashion Week show on September 8, 2001. Waris Ahluwalia, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, and sundry other downtown show ponies modeled her skinny men’s shirts. The collection, which we’re publishing on Vogue Runway for the first time, is a time capsule of turn-of-the-millennium male style: the shirts had high armholes, slimming panels, and all sorts of appliqués and patched bits. Ahluwalia accessorized his with a guitar and Hutz cradled a rooster in one hand and a valise in the other. Yes, a rooster.
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