Kith Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear

Kith pretty much killed it for Spring. With all the recent talk about resuscitating New York Fashion Week, it would appear that the city is off to a sprinting start—Tom Ford with his sexy, sparkly homecoming last night, and, thanks to Ronnie Fieg (Kith’s founder) and co., we have now had cameos by both Scottie Pippen and basketball’s GOAT, LeBron James. If that doesn’t imply some level of public-interest CPR, all within 24 hours no less, we don’t know what does. Granted, celebrity shouldn’t be the crutch upon which energy and praise are propped. But that’s where Kith went the extra mile—it succeeded in delivering a mostly solid men’s and women’s lineup behind its famous guests: There were a lot, truly a lot, of sport-and-streetwear–inflected pieces that bull’s-eyed all the targets of the current, continuing zeitgeist. There were collaborations, at least 15 of them (Vetements often gets credit for this, but in Kith’s case, the feel is notably more ordinary), including Disney, Champion, Coca-Cola, Nike, Adidas, Moncler, and even, it seemed, Chase Bank. Just recently and worth noting, Kith collaborated with yours truly,