It’s that time in February when the world turns to New York. No, not Valentines Day, but New York Fashion Week, which previews the upcoming Fall/Winter 2025-2026 clothes stores will sell to you.
Once upon a time, it was “The Event.” Who could forget it featured in the ultimate Sex And The City movie. Think about the reality shows based on it and even the jobs people have created around it like stylist and blogger.
One couple even met at it, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania.
People forecast what will be the biggest trends we will see. Here is mine, the MAGA movement will finally take the front row and the longest bows on the red carpet.
After President Trump made history with the greatest political comeback and winning both the electoral and popular votes, people are not only coming out of the “fashion tents” that they have been hiding in, but openly reflect their support of the current administration in their fashion choices and voices.
Both consumers and businesses are embracing MAGA, or what I call, MAFA, Make America Fashionable Again!
As someone who has been working with designers, stylists, marketing teams, media and consumers for over a decade, I predict that New York will return to the fashion capital of the world, retaking the title from the multiple European shows of recent years.
Inauguration Week proved that our First Family, our Second Family, newly appointed administration staff and many partygoers love fashion. And it wasn’t limited to women, young, rich or adults. Think Arabella Kirschner coat at the dedication to veterans and Robert F. Kennedy’s MAHA Ball tuxedo.
Weeks before the inauguration, designers from all over reached out with “MAGA” stories and sent me products to collaborate or market.
Several of these pieces will be part of the shows featured between February 6-20.
Red, White & Bejeweled is an affordable jewelry line handmade by Carolina Molina of the Artisan Avenue Group. Molina reached out to me after reading about the MAGA Fashionista Show I created and together we designed bracelets, necklaces and pins that can be worn alone or mixed with other items from the collection. They are versatile and unisex. No piece is over $150 and can be bought online.
Melina’s story is MAGA. A legal immigrant, a wife of a Navy veteran and a sibling of a retired police officer, the collection is a way she expressed her gratitude to America in a fashionable way. As she says, “America Shines Again.”
Two girls from Delaware, created The Styled Right, emphasizing that not all things Delaware support Bidens. Shirts and hats with sayings like Everything Is Great Again is already selling in Walmart, a sign of the change in business there, following the meeting of its CEO, Doug McMillon last month in hopes of working together on imports and taxes.
And luxury at NYFW will feature Trump designers. Marc DeFang, known as the King of Bling, sells handmade crystal accessories that sell out within minutes of production and delivery. Patriotic sneakers that sell for almost $300 are waitlisted. The dresses will reflect the American Dream.
I recently spoke with award-winning designer, Zang Toi, who has dressed many Trump family members in the past and currently. He still admits that despite record sales and the most admired fashion customers internationally, most mainstream media won’t cover his show. “It’s a shame since glamour is featured and my sales are better than most with repeat customer sales and sold out trunk shows,” Toi stated and added, “But, demand from celebrities and media from MAGA is so large that my upcoming show is completely sold out.”
Toi, who has dressed the President and his sons before, admits he would like to tailor 47 again, this time in finely crafted suits handmade in New York City, near Trump Tower.
The theme of his upcoming show honors the Opulence Of Orient Express which is relaunching this year. It emphasizes Trump glamour as a bevy of international jet setters embrace opulence and beauty.
That international spirit was seen at the inauguration as Bernard Arnault, the CEO of fashion conglomerate LVMH, together with two of his children, Delphine and Alexandre, attended events in hope of discussing tariffs, fashion and industry growth in the upcoming four years with President Trump and administration officials.
Not everyone has learned that MAGA is good business. It seemed as if Vogue Magazine was realizing the power of MAGA when José Criales-Unzueta wrote on Inauguration Day that, “designers and the industry can no longer ignore that a significant portion of the U.S. voted for Donald Trump.”
Then things changed. Vogue Magazine and its Editor, Anna Wintour, bashed Melania Trump’s official portrait. It was Wintour who led the disastrous failure called Fashion For Our Future March last September.
It’s no wonder Vogue has reduced publication to ten issues in 2023 and continues to blame everything but its own progressive policies on its lack of profitability.
I have a feeling as I continue to cover fashion weeks, runway shows and the industry, MAFA will be the trend of 2025 and red, white and blue the colors fashion is centered around. Patriotism is the new “little black dress.”
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Cindy Grosz is an award winning media personality, brand ambassador and Jewish activist. She is known as “The Jewess Patriot”. She hosts the popular “Right For America” on WGBB AM/FM. Grosz has the longest ongoing whistleblower retaliation lawsuit in New York calling out antisemitism in elementary school classrooms.
She was the Jewish Advisor for the National Diversity Coalition for Trump’s 2020 campaign and ran for Congress in 2020. For the 2024 elections, Grosz oversaw Republicans Overseas in Israel/Jews Choose Trump Official, was Northeast Chair for JEXIT and ran Jewish Vote GOP.
As Jewish Advisor for The America First Warehouse, she created the MAGA Remembers October 7th event honoring unsung heroes.
Grosz created the MAGA Fashion Show that was covered by The New York Times, Washington Post, Daily Mail and received more coverage than most of the other New York Fashion Week events.