Runway, Meet Slopes—A Visual History of Winter Wonderland Fashion Shows on This Snow Day

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This New York Fashion Week was one long but very chic snow day. But while the streets were lined with slush, designers kept the snow off their runways. But this has not always been the case. Some of our favorite designers have more than once transported their audiences to virtual winter wonderlands. There was the time that Karl Lagerfeld imported an iceberg from Sweden to the Grand Palais in Paris for Chanel, and the show that memorialized his life and work after his passing was staged as a snowy chalet. One of Thom Browne’s first-ever runway shows took place on an ice rink—those boys looked great on skates. And who could forget that Miuccia Prada took one of her Miu Miu collections to the literal slopes for one of her pandemic-era fashion collections? Scroll through our slideshow of frosty runways, and click here to play our snow day-themed Runway Genius quiz in the Vogue app.

John Galliano fall 1995

John Galliano, fall 1995

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Alexander McQueen, fall 1999

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Thom Browne, fall 2006

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Chanel fall 2010 readytowear

Chanel, fall 2010 ready-to-wear

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Ami, fall 2015 menswear

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Moschino, fall 2015 menswear

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Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, fall 2018

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Thom Browne, fall 2018 menswear

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Thom Browne, fall 2020 reayd-to-wear

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Philipp Plein, fall 2018

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Alexander Wang, spring 2019

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Chanel, fall 2019 ready-to-wear

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Batsheva, fall 2020

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Miu Miu, fall 2021 ready-to-wear

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Balenciaga, fall 2022

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Givenchy, spring 2023 menswear

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Doublet, spring 2023 menswear

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