Saturday at New York Fashion Week: Gurung, Wang, Altuzarra

The weekend is when New York Fashion week really starts warming up.
Lacoste sets things off at 10 a.m. Saturday morning at Lincoln Center. But the biggest shows Saturday are Prabal Gurung (noon), Alexander Wang (5 p.m.) and Joseph Altuzarra (8 p.m.). T Magazine will be live streaming the Alexander Wang show.
Eric Wilson’s Fast Fashion post on the Prabal Gurung show will be live around 1 p.m. Check back for his report on the Alexander Wang show around 6, along with T’s backstage beauty coverage of the shows, including a new Model-Morphosis interactive feature from Prabal Gurung.
Before stepping out to jam-packed fashion week after-parties Saturday night, read Cathy Horyn’s post on the Joseph Altuzarra show that will be posted and tweeted around 10:30.
Backstage at Suno during spring 2014 shows.

At first glance Mr. Wang and Mr. Altuzarra seem to be New York fashion’s dueling banjos.
Mr. Altuzarra, on the other hand, creates modern and sexy Uptown girl clothes, and seems to be focused only on sticking to his own line (at least for now). However, Friday, Kering, the conglomerate that is home to brands including Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga, announced that it had taken a minority stake in Mr. Altuzarra’s label.Both experienced meteoric rises within the same period a few years ago, but have traveled divergent paths. Mr. Wang made his name designing laid-back, athletic-inspired clothes that immediately resonated with young, urban women. And, like Marc Jacobs, who also designs for Louis Vuitton, Mr. Wang was tapped to design for a major French fashion house, Balenciaga. So far he has lived up to the pressure and the label’s heritage, while continuing to satisfy his grand New York customer base.

At 3 and 4 p.m. respectively, crowd favorites like Hervé Léger and Christian Siriano, the only “Project Runway” alum to turn his popularity into a viable business, also show Saturday, and are bound to be swarming with bandage-dress-clad, platform-pump wearing socialites and starlets. (Read the Stargazing post Saturday afternoon to learn more about who showed up where and said what.)
Kenneth Cole presents his spring collection at 2 p.m. at the Garage, a space his company owns next to its headquarters. The anticipation surrounding his show extends past the clothes, though. Mr. Cole has been in social media’s hot seat since Thursday for a controversial Twitter post about Syria.