CHR Radar Brooklyn: Fashion, Style & Culture | August 17–23, 2026
Brooklyn fashion rarely waits for a runway invitation. This week it shows up inside a museum, across racks of vintage clothing in Williamsburg and at an art market that eventually hands the room over to the DJs.
Welcome to the fashion side of CHR Radar, our weekly edit of the people, places and ideas moving style around Brooklyn.
This week's three picks have almost nothing in common.
Perfect.
1. Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
On View Now | Brooklyn Museum
🔴 CHR RADAR PICK
Some clothing covers the body.
Iris van Herpen designs around it.
The Brooklyn Museum's Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses brings together more than 140 haute couture creations, alongside contemporary art, design objects, scientific artifacts and specimens from the natural world. The exhibition runs through December 6. (Brooklyn Museum)
Van Herpen's work lives somewhere between fashion, engineering, biology, sculpture and science. Traditional couture techniques sit beside newer technologies and experimental materials, while the exhibition explores the relationship between the human body, clothing and the environments around us. (Brooklyn Museum)
That's exactly why it belongs on the Radar.
The most interesting fashion often begins when someone stops asking, What should clothing look like? and starts asking, What else could clothing become?
CHR Radar says: Go for the dresses. Stay for the ideas.
2. A Vintage Market
Saturday + Sunday, August 22–23 | 11 AM–5 PM
201 N 8th Street, Williamsburg
Williamsburg goes digging this weekend.
The Lucky Flea's A Vintage Market returns for its final scheduled August weekend with roughly 40 vendors inside a loft near the Bedford L station. The summer market has been running on alternating weekends, with August 22 and 23 closing out the announced series. (Eventeny)
Vintage shopping has become more than nostalgia.
It's part treasure hunt, part sustainability conversation, part fashion archive and part rebellion against everyone owning exactly the same thing.
And Brooklyn remains one of the best laboratories for it.
The New Yorker highlighted this Williamsburg series earlier this summer while surveying New York's vintage-market scene. (The New Yorker)
CHR Radar says: Forget the algorithm for an afternoon. Find something nobody planned for you to find.
3. Double Happiness 双囍 Art Market
Saturday, August 22 | 2–8 PM
641 62nd Street, Brooklyn
🎧 THE CROSSOVER PICK
This one might be the most Crown Heights Radio event of the three.
A Space Gallery's first Double Happiness vendor market brings independent brands, vintage clothing, jewelry, handmade goods, artists, illustrators, books and zines into a full-day community arts festival in Brooklyn's Chinese community. (Aspace Com)
The daytime market runs from 2 to 8 PM.
Then at 9 PM, the market gives way to an evening DJ party. (Aspace Com)
Fashion.
Art.
Independent creators.
DJs.
Brooklyn.
We didn't exactly have to wrestle with this decision.
CHR Radar says: Come early enough to browse the racks. Stay late enough to hear the bass.
ON OUR RADAR
🔥 The Pick: Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses♻️ The Style Dig: A Vintage Market🎨 + 🎧 The CHR Crossover: Double Happiness
One museum exhibition.
One room full of old clothes looking for new lives.
One art market that eventually turns into a party.
That's a pretty good snapshot of Brooklyn fashion.
CHR Radar is Crown Heights Radio's weekly edit of fashion, music, art, dance and culture moving through Brooklyn.
