Alexis Bittar flexed at New York Fashion week fall 2025 — his first time on the CFDA’s calendar of events— with a subversive performance art installation and accessories preview.
“I have rarely seen accessories have shows that are as engaging as ready-to-wear. I wanted to create a forum for my brand that was immersive, stimulating all senses, and that would leave spectators in awe. Fusing the worlds of art and fashion,” Bittar said of his event.
He called the presentation “A Portal.” “I decided to create an entire world in which we were transported into the future, specifically 2050,” he shared, a possible commentary on the state of the world. “It is a dystopian tale. We enter a home in the suburbs, that was built in the ’80s, inhabited by a woman who is surrounded by her AI Robots. It is unclear if she has created a world by choice, isolated from people, or it’s a postapocalyptic moment in time where no one lives near her. Either way, she is enjoying her solitude with her robots. At the same time she is becoming unhinged. She finds solitude and unleashes memories while trying on her accessories and jewelry.”
Inside a black box theater in the East Village, Bittar blended the bold sensibility of the ’80s and ’90s — his definitive genres — into an imagined future blurring lines between reality and technology and his fall accessories assortment. AI robots were loaded up with his super statement bangles and collar necklaces, while completing mundane household chores to the delight of the crowd — many let out gasps as they entered the space. Centered on the stage, a woman at her vanity, not a mirror, but a portal, heightening the experience. Along with vitrines of jewelry and handbags the space was fully immersive, with distant nature sounds mixed with eerie bell charms that sounded oddly musical.
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