Now You Can ‘Taste' the Look With These 10 NYFW-Inspired Cocktails

Now You Can ‘Taste' the Look With These 10 NYFW-Inspired Cocktails


Food & Drink, Style & Beauty,

Now You Can ‘Taste' the Look With These 10 NYFW-Inspired Cocktails

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Food & Drink, Style & Beauty,

Now You Can ‘Taste' the Look With These 10 NYFW-Inspired Cocktails

Now You Can ‘Taste' the Look With These 10 NYFW-Inspired Cocktails

Food & Drink, Style & Beauty,

Now You Can ‘Taste' the Look With These 10 NYFW-Inspired Cocktails

Published By:   •   September 16, 2021

Now You Can ‘Taste' the Look With These 10 NYFW-Inspired Cocktails

Published By:

September 16, 2021

Food & Drink, Style & Beauty,


If you’re like us, you’re still reeling from New York Fashion Week. It was a whirlwind celebration of vision and poise, a triumphant return for the fashion industry and New York City after a year spent living in sweat pants on the couch.

If you couldn’t make it to the shows, you can still experience some of that fun with one of these look-inspired cocktails. Recreate the runway in your own home. With one of these delightful drinks in your hand, you do in fact look like a model.

See also: Phillip Lim's Spring Collection Gives Us a New Zest For Life

Surf Lodge’s The Pink Flamingo NYFW 2021 Staud

Inspired by LA-based brand Staud’s ravishingly pink maxi dress, this flamingo drink will transport you to a tropical paradise. This recipe comes courtesy of The Hamptons’ Surf Lodge. It’s full of citrus bursts, perfect for a bright sunny day.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Martini & Rossi Fiero
  • 1 oz tequila
  • 2 oz Whispering Angel
  • ½ oz agave
  • 1 oz lemon juice
  • 4 oz watermelon juice
  • 3 oz Acqua Panna water
  • 1/3 oz saline

Directions

Place all ingredients in a cocktail mixer and stir gently. Serve over crushed ice in a tumbler and adorn with flamingo accoutrements if desired. This recipe can also be batched and blended with ice in a blender for a slushy style

Surf Lodge's Pink Flamingo cocktail

Fiero & Tonic

NYFW 2021 Proenza Schouler

If red is more your color, try this bold Martini & Rossi Fiero and tonic, inspired by Proenza Shouler’s fiery maxi dress. Fiero means “proud” in Italian, so go ahead and strut about town.

Ingredients

  • 1 part Martini & Rossi Fiero
  • 1 part tonic water

Directions

Pack a balloon glass with ice and pour in an equal ratio of Martini & Rossi Fiero and tonic water. Stir gently for a few moments and garnish with an orange wheel.

Fiero and Tonic cocktail

James Whiteside’s Ballerino

NYFW 2021 Christian Siriano

Celeb designer Christian Siriano didn’t pull any punches with his Spring/Summer 2022 finale look, and neither will you with this refined-yet-fruity cocktail made from bourbon, kombucha and more. This cocktail was also inspired by American Ballet Theater Principal Dancer James Whiteside, so give us a twirl.

Ingredients

  • 1 oz Angel’s Envy bourbon
  • 1 oz St-Germain elderflower liqueur
  • 2 oz sparkling water
  • 1 oz ginger-lemon kombucha
  • ½ oz lemon juice
  • 2 drops Bittercube Jamaican No 1 Bitters
  • Garnish: micro blossom confetti

Directions

Build ingredients over pebbled ice in a Collins glass and add confetti garnish.

Ballerino Spritz cocktail

Dry Le Sud

NYFW 2021 Rodarte

Let’s take a trip to France with this spritz inspired by Rodarte’s breezy and brilliant, seaside-ready gown. We feel lighter already.

Ingredients

  • 2½ parts Noilly Prat Extra Dry
  • Chilled Perrier sparkling water
  • Frozen green grapes speared on a stirrer
  • Small ice spheres

Directions

Stack small ice spheres all the way to the top until peaking over the washline. Pour Noilly Prat Extra Dry over ice spheres, top with chilled Perrier, and garnish with frozen grapes.

Le Sud cocktail with Noilly Prat Extra Dry

Fleurita

NYFW 2021 Ulla Johnson

Purple petal daydream. That’s how we’d describe Ulla Johnson’s gorgeous spring-day look, and those feelings come to life in full flavor with this St-Germain and tequila mixture.

Ingredients

  • ½ oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
  • 1 ½ oz tequila
  • 1 oz clarified cucumber juice
  • ½ oz orange blossom syrup (combine 1 cup of cane sugar and 1 cup water and gently heat until dissolved. Remove from the heat and add 2 tsp of orange blossom water)
  • ¼ oz citric acid solution (whisk 10 ml or 2 tsp of citric acid (lemon or citrus juice) with 100 ml of water)
  • Spray of lavender bitters

Directions

Combine ingredients in a cocktail tin and shake, then strain over ice. Garnish with fennel pollen salt and a bouquet of edible flowers.

Fleurita cocktail

The Japanese Smooth Highball

NYFW 2021 Phillip Lim

Japanese whisky is ultra-smooth, and so is this warm little suit number from Phillip Lim. Pair your sophisticated look with a cocktail that’s as powerful as you are.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ oz Dewar’s Japanese Smooth whisky
  • 3 oz chilled soda water
  • Orange twist garnish

Directions

Add whisky to a chilled highball glass filled with ice spears. Stir and gently top with chilled soda water. Place a bar spoon under the ice and stir a few times, being careful not to over stir. Spray with the aromatic oil of the orange twist, and garnish.

Japanese Smooth Highball cocktail

Spicy Mango Daiquiri

NYFW 2021 Christian Siriano

Muy caliente! We adore this yellow showstopper from Christian Siriano. It’s sweet and spicy, kind of like the mix of hellfire bitters and mango syrup in this must-try mix. Don’t forget the Tajin rim!

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ oz Santa Teresa 1796
  • 1 oz lime juice
  • ½ oz Monin Mango Syrup
  • 1-2 dash Scrappy’s Hellfire Bitters

Directions

Combine all in tin. Add ice. Shake. Fine strain in a chilled but iceless coupe glass, rimmed with Tajin. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Spicy Mango Daquiri cocktail

Anna Sui’s Paradisiac

NYFW 2021 Anna Sui

Anna Sui’s collection was inspired by Shangri-La, and this cocktail can take you there with floral notes of hibiscus, ginger, lime and tequila. Thank you to Earlecia Richelle who crafted this cocktail for St-Germain.

Ingredients

  • 1 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
  • 1 oz Cazadores Blanco Tequila
  • 2 oz Butterfly Pea Tea (boil butterfly pea tea bag in water, cool for 2 minutes then strain and add lime juice to turn purple)
  • 1 oz Q Hibiscus Ginger Beer
  • ¼ oz fresh lime juice
  • 1 dash of Peychaud's Bitters

Directions

Build ingredients over ice cubes in a tall glass.

Paradisiac cocktail

Laura Kim’s Rosé Spritz

As Co-Creative Director for Oscar de la Renta, Laura Kim knows how to take classic style and give it a modern spin. Her playful yet poised mini dress helped close out the show, and this delicate yet daring drink made from St-Germain and rose is the perfect accompaniment.

Ingredients

  • 1 oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
  • 2 ½ oz strawberry-infused rosé wine (infuse 4 cups of quartered strawberries into a 750 ml bottle of rosé wine for at least 3 hours, then double strain)
  • 2 oz Sparkling Yuzu

Directions

Build ingredients over floral ice cubes in a wine glass. Garnish with cherry blossom ice cubes, made from freezing petals in water with a tray

Rose Spritz

Carine's Signature Grey Goose Apple Martini

Spring 2022 rtw tom ford

Inspired by this flashy look from Tom Ford's Spring 2022 RTW collection, this modern take on a '90s classic hits all the right notes. It was cooked up by editor and stylist Carine Roitfeld who worked with Ford to prepare this show. The apple martini happens to be Ford's favorite cocktail, too.

Ingredients

  • 1½ Oz Grey Goose La Poire Vodka
  • ½ Oz Calvados
  • ⅓ Oz Ancho Reyes chilis
  • ½ Oz Lime
  • 1.½ Oz Fresh Apple Juice Cocktail Shimmer

Directions

Shake all ingredients with Ice. Serve up in a Martini glass and garnish with an Apple Fan.

grey goose apple martini

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