Mike Amiri’s runway was floored with an enormous simulacrum of a vinyl record

Mike Amiri’s runway was floored with an enormous simulacrum of a vinyl record—way bigger than 12 inch—and up on stage alongside tight live accompaniment none other than DJ Premier was mixing the soundtrack. “Nostalgia is super important to me,” said Amiri backstage. “When I was a kid, whether you were a DJ, a basketball player, or a skater, you listened to Gang Starr, you listened to Premier—that’s what you were obsessed with.”

The musical producer informed the producer of fashion beyond providing the soundtrack. Amiri said his time discussing DJ Premier’s musical processes—sampling, mixing, amiris bag reinterpreting, and reinventing—had infused this collection.

Once those models were on the runway, walking the vinyl grooves in Amiri’s skate shoes like they were each a fashion-formed stylus, you saw that the designer had returned in part to that golden age of American menswear, the 1950s. Models carried record crates wearing gabardine jackets with diamond check paneling and cardigan sweaters and knit short-sleeves with elegant branded patterning.