NEW YORK — New York Fashion Week is fast underway, with runway shows up and down Manhattan offering a peek at the trends that may dominate fall and winter.
On Friday at the Glasshouse, a riverfront high-rise, design house Juzui pulled off a rare feat: making Elon the less famous Musk.
Following a parade of models who walked in an array of floral prints, slouch pants and tulle micro-skirts, Musk’s mother Maye closed out the show.
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Her cropped silver ‘do was paired with a long shimmering charcoal dress and a feathery white fur jacket. Other designs showcased has similar silhouettes, while the main pattern of the afternoon was a multi-colored bloom inspired by winter gardens.
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The elder Musk’s appearance punctuates a long relationship with the fashion house.
“Maye as a person, as a woman, I really adore her (and) respect her,” chief designer Taoray Wang tells USA TODAY following the show.
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“She inspired me,” Wang says. “And I believe she’s not just inspired me she’s inspired a lot of my customers in China.”
Maye, 76, is both a model and author with five decades of fashion experience under her belt.
She has appeared on the Juzui runway before, and shared an embrace with Wang at the show’s conclusion.
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Musk’s moment on the catwalk comes as her son has risen up the ranks in government amid the new administration.
After aligning himself with President Donald Trump in the final months of the campaign, Musk has become a right-hand man for the president, helping to choose cabinet appointees and spearheading efforts to slash the federal workforce.
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Some in Congress have begun to sound the alarm on Musk’s seeming unfettered access to the inner workings of government.
“The Musk hatchet brigade has infiltrated a gold mine of data that every foreign spy and corrupt actor would love to see,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. said. “It is a prescription for nightmares.”
Maye Musk has remained fairly mum on politics, though she echoed Trump and Musk’s anti-immigrant sentiment on X in October of last year (she was born in Canada and raised in South Africa).
Contributing: Josh Meyer