New York Fashion Week shows off high fashion

Weed makes it onto the runway in designer Korto Momolu’s show

By Kieran Delamont

2019-09-11

New York Fashion Week is no stranger to drugs of all sorts, but this year one of them, weed, is on more prominent display — even making it onto the runway. 

A show by designer Korto Momolu held in Manhattan’s Pier 59 Studios featured not only outfits designed of hemp fabric, but models taking hits off a vape pen as the walked the runway. (The designer says it’s the kind of thing that helps “normalize” cannabis. But if it’s made it into the usually-austere world of New York fashion, it stands to reason that maybe cannabis is already well past normalized.

Source: Observer