Cover photo of Elle Japan: May 2001

May 2001 issue of Elle Japan

Elle Japan, May 2001, clipping: Japanese fashion-week diary page, a dense grid of runway photos from New York, including Claudia Hill's draped black and oatmeal dresses and elsewhere a partly nude model in an open robe

In Japanese: a magazine editor's day-by-day diary of attending New York Fashion Week for the first time, covering the Fall 2001 shows. It describes closing one evening at a small theater with Claudia Hill's poetic show, praised for its beautiful curves and three-dimensionality, amid reports on several other new designers' collections and after-parties.