Participating designers include :
- A. Potts
- Avon Anglers
- Chelsea Grays
- Christopher Lowman
- Monday Blues Studio
- Peak Lapel
- PROJECT by Informa Las Vegas Preview
- Science Project Company*
- Wangda
*Showing for the first time at NYMD
ABOUT NYMD
New York Men’s Day (NYMD), is a bi-annual collective fashion initiative intended to help nurture emerging talent and consolidate the showing of contemporary menswear and gender fluid collections. Each season, NYMD features a collective of menswear or gender fluid brands in a group presentation format over two-hour periods. The format of showcasing multiple presentations at the same time will create ease of flow for media and buyers, allowing them to move through the studios at their own pace. NYMD was founded in 2014 by Agentry PR, and is now in its 24th season
ABOUT A. POTTS
Aaron Potts was born and raised in Detroit, MI to a working-class family with roots in the American South. A childhood filled with church, weekend fishing trips, going to work with his carpenter father and shopping with his dress-loving mother would shape his future view of art and design. He discovered fashion in high school and never looked back. He attended Parsons School of Design and held internships with Marc Jacobs, Tracy Reese and Donna Karan before embarking on an international career designing for Emanuel Ungaro, Ellen Tracy, Escada, Tamara Mellon, Badgley Mischka and others.
In the spring of 2019, he launched the passion of his life, A.Potts. Through a lens of what he calls “EVERYDAY EDITORIAL”, A.Potts embodies his embrace of creativity and usefulness – pieces that are as special as they are practical, designed to address the needs and wants of busy creatives. This street-ready & runway-worthy collection fuses utilitarian details with couture volumes, executed in modern, yet practical fabrics.
The collection is an expression of Aaron’s love of beauty that unites and celebrates people of all races, sizes, ages and gender expressions. The unifying factor is the collective spirit of artfulness, chicness and self-exploration. A.Potts is inspired by Black history, classical Japanese design, utilitarian gear and the creative souls in the A.Potts tribe. A.Potts has had the honor of winning the FGI Award for Best All-Gender design in 2020, was chosen as a “Paradigm Shifting NYC Designer” by Harper’s Bazaar, had a look featured in the Met Museum’s “In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion” and has been seen in Vogue, the NYTimes, Harper’s Bazaar, L’Officiel, Paper and other influential publications. A.Potts can regularly be seen on influential culture creators such as Janet Jackson, Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill, Jacob Elordi, H.E.R., Usher, Machine Gun Kelly, Ciara, Billy Porter, Angela Davis, Deon Cole, Joel Kinnaman, Amy Sherald, Chloe Bailey, Monet Xchange, Carol AIt, Robin Thede, Jill Scott, Questlove and many other artists from the worlds of dance, art, entertainment and writing.
ABOUT AVON ANGLERS
Founded by designer Patrik Rzepski, Avon Anglers is a New York–made menswear brand built on the belief that what we make, and how we make it, matters. Designed and produced entirely in New York, the brand works in small batches with long-standing local partners, prioritizing craftsmanship, honest materials, and a thoughtful approach to production. Avon Anglers focuses on garments that endure, pieces rooted in restraint, utility, and longevity rather than excess. Transparency, provenance, and community are central to the brand’s ethos, offering a quieter, more intentional vision of contemporary menswear where true luxury is found in how something is made and how long it lasts.
ABOUT CHELSEA GRAYS
CHELSEA GRAYS is a purpose-driven luxury fashion brand centered on unisex, androgynous, masculine-informed design. Rooted in political and social awareness, the brand merges structured tailoring, utilitarian influence, and narrative storytelling to challenge conventional ideas of beauty and identity. Through small-batch, sustainable production and community-focused initiatives, CHELSEA GRAYS redefines modern luxury as both culturally reflective and socially engaged.
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER LOWMAN
Christopher Lowman is a luxury fashion brand born in New York City, blending elevated tailoring with contemporary street influence to create a new language of modern American design. Founded by designer Christopher Lowman, the label is grounded in precision, craftsmanship, and emotional storytelling—each collection exploring personal experiences, cultural moments, and the evolving identity of New York.
ABOUT MONDAY BLUES STUDIO
Monday Blues, Studio is a sustainable luxury house devoted to reimagining discarded burlap coffee bags into rare, 1/1 artifacts. It’s signature line, Coffee Couture, transforms these raw materials through meticulous, couture level construction. The studio traces its origin to a single act of creation by an intentionally anonymous creator, whose identity remains secondary to the work itself. From that moment emerged a new language of resilience, material rebirth, and quiet extravagance. Minimal yet intricate, raw yet refined, each garment is made to order, singular, and designed to exist as both clothing and memory.
Monday Blues, Studio: Made to Be Remembered.
ABOUT PEAK LAPEL
Peak Lapel, founded by Jack Milkes and Ben Stedman, is a unisex label inspired by traditional, preppy menswear. The duo’s shared love for classic and historical men’s clothing brought them together to create their own take on “men’s fashion”. Peak Lapel aims to “modernize menswear”, through the history of fashion, in combination with modern silhouettes, fabrics and influences from streetwear.
Ben and Jack are both students at Parsons School of Design. Ben is from Massachusetts and is studying Strategic Design and Management, a major focus in fashion business. Jack is from Los Angeles and is studying Fashion Design. Peak Lapel was formed with both of these types of design in mind, which created the perfect team to modernize this part of menswear.
ABOUT SCIENCE PROJECT COMPANY
Science Project Company (SPC) is a luxury streetwear brand built on clean structure, intentional design, and a quiet sense of authority. Founded by Heginz Janvier, the brand grew out of a moment when fashion felt predictable, and collections focused on output instead of expression. Thus, the brand was created as a place for experimentation, while pushing barriers with intention and personal narrative at its core.
SPC draws from military codes, technical tailoring, and functional layering to build garments that are disciplined. Its stripped-down forms speak to those who see clothing as a tool for communication rather than ornament.
With recognition from Complex, Hypebeast, and other notable leading cultural publications, the brand establishes a framework for thoughtful, future-facing dressing, giving its community a wardrobe shaped by purpose rather than noise.
Born to Haitian immigrant parents, Janvier was raised in the inner city of North Jersey as one of five children. Grounded in a provider’s mindset and shaped by a street-level education in style, his early love for fashion came from what he saw on the sidewalks—not runways. After earning a Finance degree and climbing the ranks from retail floors to corporate offices, he quickly realized the 9-to-5 path wasn’t his final destination. He left behind the safety of the corporate world to build something of his own. SPC is the product of that leap: a reflection of resilience and the refusal to be boxed in.
ABOUT WANGDA
Wangda Chen is the visionary founder and creative force behind WÀNGDA, a New York–based label that marries Eastern craftsmanship with minimalist sensibility. Born and raised in China, he boldly relocated to the U.S. at the age of 16, a turning point that profoundly influenced the duality at the heart of his work.
Wangada cultivated a designer’s curiosity and a storyteller’s nuance, rejecting conformity in favor of emotional sincerity. Early on, his sister and grandmother’s small sartorial alterations fueled his fascination with tailoring, a childhood spark that grew into professional determination.
Launched in 2023 in Manhattan’s Garment District, WÀNGDA channels this personal journey into each collection. The brand’s aesthetic, quiet luxury defined, combines razor-sharp structure with deconstructed ease, resulting in pieces that are at once polished and imperfectly human.
