New York Fashion Week closes with an Edgar Allen Poe tribute from Thom Browne

American designer Thom Browne paid tribute to the iconic author and poet Edgar Allen Poe in the last New York Fashion Week show. Some designs played off of Poe's famous writings called "The Raven."

Nobody in fashion is a better storyteller than Browne, now chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, who over the years has placed his shows in mock cathedrals, magical gardens, even on faraway planets. As always, Browne’s models did not strut a runway but instead were players in his fantasy, walking deliberately and serenely around a wintry wasteland filled with snow and bare trees.

As the audience filed in, one of those "trees," a man on stilts in a huge puffer coat, or gown, stood silently. Once the drama began, four young children emerged from that coat — as if he were a darker version of Mother Ginger from "The Nutcracker" — eventually sitting in the snow as the poem began.