New York Fashion Week Is Here. The Parties Have Some of Its Best Outfits.

New York Fashion Week has arrived with a ripple of parties across the city, where urban cowboys, indie-sleaze-aspiring revelers and stylish, timeworn New Yorkers are strutting their stuff. It’s not just vamping models and eager spectators pumping out looks. Off the runways, a less curated undercurrent (or at least one carefully chosen to appear so) takes over after sundown. See who was out and what they wore — updated throughout this week and next.

Thursday, Sept. 5

Air Mail and Bloomingdale’s Channel Italy

The model Jordan Rand, in a PH5 dress and Balenciaga sunglasses.

Partygoers on the Upper East Side were transported to Italy on Thursday in an evening filled with sculptural foods, opera performances and many, many roses.

The soiree, thrown by Bloomingdale’s and Air Mail to promote the department store’s Italy-inspired fall campaign, was co-hosted by Isabella Rossellini along with Christine Baranski and Morgan Spector of the HBO show “The Gilded Age.”

“Italian men like powder blue shirts and navy ties so I thought that’s what I’ll do to honor them,” Graydon Carter, the co-founder and editor of Air Mail, said. “May we all be reborn Italian.”