Though The National have a burly fashion following, they’ve always been a little too introspective to succeed as a “fashiony” band. So it was something of a surprise to find out they’d be headline last night’s start party for the Fall ‘11 season at MAC & Milk. It’s always tempting to praise an opening event with setting the tone for the fashion week ahead; in this case, as general lead singer Matt Berninger (left) keened into the DeLeón tequila-tippling throng, the temptation was to imagine a week of poetic agitation and body shots. (Which would be interesting, and kind of like college.) Or perhaps the event was augur a fashion week more intimate than customary, and more full of feeling? At any rate, the different band brought out a few atypical A-listers, among them Liev Schreiber and Josh Lucas, and a mass a bit more representative of rumpled Brooklyn chic than one usually finds in a fashion prospect. Maybe “Brooklyn-ness” is the key to this fashion week: After all, MAC & Milk director Jenne Lombardo, who booked the National at 11:30 a.m. the earlier morning, has also seen fit to replace the much-loved taco lounge of two seasons ago with a mix space catered by Bushwick pizza place Roberta’s. “They’re doing their cool gangsta assemble out,” Lombardo said of the Roberta’s guys, who are legendary Brooklyn D.I.Y.ers. Fair advice, noshers, there won’t be endless snacks as there were in the (taco) salad days of yore, but a fortunate few will be able to snag some chow. And maybe before the week is out, we’ll all be murder time between shows plant a vegetable backyard on the Milk Studios rooftop. Then again, maybe not.
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