Can We Be Friends?
The question sounds deceptively simple: Can we be friends? Yet in a season where humanity and technology grow closer by the hour, emotional connections feel increasingly charged, almost fragile. PRIVATE POLICY takes this tension as its starting point, imagining a future where connection might be rewired and where friendship itself could extend beyond the human.
The collection opens with echoes of familiar American archetypes: the freedom of the Bohemian spirit, the resilience of denim, the utility of workwear, the optimism of preppy style. Symbols born of community and belonging are undone and reassembled through fabrics that gesture toward the unknown. Protective weaves soften into dresses as light as air. Silicone textures reimagine the polka dot into something uncanny and new. Piqué is pulled and reshaped into shirred polos. Sheer technical cloths are sculpted into jackets that hover between strength and transparency. In this shifting language, what was once ordinary takes on a second life as Future-Tech Americana.
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Onto the runway comes BAOBAO, the world’s first Dual-Form Home Intelligent Agent, able to switch seamlessly between humanoid and quadruped form. BAOBAO was created with MirrorMe Technology, a Shanghai-based company dedicated to the integration of AI and robotics, developing machines capable of motion and manipulation that surpass human ability.
BAOBAO’s movements are precise, their presence unmistakably real, yet their meaning remains unsettling. They appear not as spectacle but as companions in a story about trust, intimacy, and unease. Can a machine carry emotion? Can it offer friendship? Between awe and apprehension, attraction and doubt, the encounter asks us to navigate a bond without precedent.
PRIVATE POLICY does not seek to close the circle. The collection leaves the audience suspended in the question, listening for its resonance in their own hearts. If intelligence can be programmed to understand us, is it still only machinery? If friendship stretches to include what we once called artificial, does it not also stretch the very meaning of being human? On this runway in New York, the conversation is not resolved. It is alive.
PRODUCTION | 3V CREATIVE PRODUCTIONS
STYLIST | XANDER ANG
CASTING DIRECTOR | BRENT CHUA
LIGHTING | STUDIO RRD
HAIR | NARAD KUTOWAROO using UNITE HAIRCARE
MAKE UP | TERRY BARBER using MAC COSMETICS
NAIL | PATTIE YANKEE
FOOTWEAR | NIKE
SOUNDTRACK | MAISON LABTONIC
VIDEO AND HOUSE PHOTO | KOHL MURDOCK AT MOMENT DEPT.
ROBOT | MIRRORME TECHNOLOGY
PUBLIC RELATION | REP AGENCY
SALES | info@privatepolicyny.com
Special thank you
VOSS, DAVID Protein
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