Last Night at Solange's Saint Heron x 1MSQFT Fashion Week Party with Kelela and Moses Sumney

Moses Sumney and Solange Knowles. Photos by Benjanmin Lozovsky/BFANYC.com.

Today marks the end of New York fashion week. The city will certainly be a less colorful place without all of the fashion world peacocking around the West Side, trying negotiate the filthy snow drifts, ice banks, and cobblestones. As of tomorrow the lost gazelles with insufficient body fat for NYC's cold, cold climate will flee to the damp, grey streets of London, and all the bloggerati will kinda curse the fact that they have three more weeks of fashion fabulousness across Europe, because, you know, all those outfit decisions, all that rushing around fueled on nothing but green juice—oof—it's tiring.

Last night we attended what turned out to be the highlight of our fashion week—Solange's Saint Heron's party in conjunction with Microsoft's 1MSQFT (One Million Square Feet). What's that mean exactly? Well the blurb runs thus:

The event was "the third in a series of atypical cultural spaces brought to life in unexpected places and guest curated by a range of experts across various creative disciplines." The eventual goal? "Creating one million square feet of culture, at events including Art Basel Miami, SXSW and The Sundance Film Festival."

Thanks to the culture vultures at Saint Heron two thousand, three hundred and forty-six (2,346) square feet of art and music was programed during NYFW—all contributing to 1MSQFT. In actuality this meant a venue where the walls were dripping with gold chains, glittering bricks, and a stage decked with blinged out speaker stacks. Guests were encouraged to create their own karaoke videos against a specially created backdrop thanks to artists Hisham Akira Bharoocha and Terence Nance, while DJs Kitty Cash and Lindsey dropped Ginuwine and D'Angelo. Eventually rising singer Moses Sumney took the stage—think a soul-stoked Jeff Buckley with a loop pedal—before being joined by minimalist, elastic-toned songstress Kelela, who slayed us all last year on her album Cut 4 Me.

If you haven't already checked out Saint Heron's compilation—where the hell have you been? It features cuts by Sampha, Starchild, Kelela, Jhené Aiko, and others, and you should Quite apart from the compilation, Solange has pulled together the most awesome girl posse around to help her run the . As Saint Heron's Arts and Culture Editor, Marjon Carlos, put it: "We're all strong women and that's at the core of whatever we do." Alongside Solange and Marjon, there's Diane "Shabazz" Varnie as Music News Ed, Saada Ahmed as Content Editor, Christina Coleman as News Editor, and Saint Heron's Music Features Editor (and a graphics design student at Parsons) Elise Peterson.

We spoke to Elise and Marjon the collective's ethos and last night's event…

Elise Peterson wearing William Okpo alongside Marjon Carlos (want that deer skirt!) and Uzoamaka Maduka, founder of The American Reader.

Elise on the spirit of Saint Heron: "Really the site was based off of a bunch of us who already had this friendship based on all these conversations we were having about not having a platform that we felt spoke to our voice, especially as young women of color. But specifically we really wanted to promote R&B music and rewrite the narrative of what is considered R&B because I feel like people think R&B is still this very 90s thing. Especially in conjunction with the compilation, we wanted a platform to feature those artists as well as other artists that may not necessarily have that spotlight."

Marjon: "For arts and culture we definitely want a particular opinion. We want it to be strong and critical and bring up issues of race, gender, and sexuality in pop culture, and how those things intermingle—which is what I do with my writing generally, so it was easy to bring it to Saint Heron. We want to celebrate filmmakers, writers, musicians, and artists of color who may not be getting the shine that they deserve."

Elise on the event: "They're aiming to bring 1 million square feet of culture and it's usually based around some bigger event. This time it's NYFW and they want to create this interesting cultural experience. They wanted to do an event during fashion week that wasn't about fashion. Their ideology and ours are very similar in that they want to give artists platforms. They gave us complete creative freedom to bring in artists like Hisham and Terence to do these interesting installations and then have these musicians come and do these amazing things."

Seriously though—everyone at this event had the most incredible hair. Look at SZA (below). They are clearly talking follicles.

This dude: Braids and ribbons in the hair, a glowstick choker, a tiny cross tattooed between his brows, the tears, the ice in the ears. Just, everything.

Kelela and Moses Sumney.

Accessorize with patterns, fur, and a baby bump. Christina Coleman and Saada Ahmed (left), Sabel and Cynthia Cervantes (right).

Music Editor Shabazz wearing XXBC vintage-patterned sweat shorts. Photo by Muneerah Livingston.

DJ Kitty Cash.