Bridget Foley’s Diary Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

“You have to get dressed,” Christopher John Rogers muses on the importance of fashion. Never mind that he has just quoted almost verbatim the legendary New York Times fashion journalist Carrie Donovan, only minus Donovan’s “Well, My Dear…” salutation, and her grand, theatrical delivery. Rogers radiates an enthusiasm for fashion that Donovan would likely admire. He is one of New York fashion’s current “next generation” celebrated aspirants, determined to find their way in an industry in which roadblocks seem ever more abundant and treacherous. Yet he’s undaunted. “A little delusion is good,” Rogers says. There’s nothing delusional about his buzz factor. On Saturday afternoon at Spring Studios, he will stage his first formal runway show thanks to sponsorship from IMG. He’s a finalist in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition, with his next project due in October (no rest for the weary). And tonight he will ring in the official start of the spring 2020 season at Tom Ford’s dinner at Indochine for young designers and international press. Rogers and I e-met when he sent in a quote for WWD’s feature on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Fascinated by the moon landing? Yes! “The ability to imagine life beyond our confines

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