From The Cut: A Smaller, Bigger Fashion Week

Kerby Jean-Raymond and his choir take the Kings Theatre.

- Cathy Horyn

During Tom Ford’s first season as chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, a shortened and stuffed Fashion Week went everywhere: the Apollo Theater in Harlem for Tommy Hilfiger, the Brooklyn Navy Yard for Michael Kors, an abandoned subway station on the Bowery for Ford. In Flatbush, 90 minutes before the Pyer Moss show at the historic Kings Theatre, the line swept down the block, and at 10 p.m., well after the scheduled start, there were thousands of people outside. Finally, around 10:30, things got going. A choir of some 60 strong filed in, dominating the massive stage, and a small band settled into th