On February 13, 2026, a spectacular New York Fashion Week event unfolded at the Lithos Lounge in the AC Marriott Hotel, Downtown Manhattan, presented in collaboration with the CosMODA Alliance and icMercury. The evening brought together fashion, digital art, and space-inspired creativity in a setting designed to celebrate cross-disciplinary innovation.
Empresse Atelier’s supermodels set the CosMODA Alliance New York Fashion Week runway ablaze with a celestial jewelry and evening-wear collection that appeared straight out of a multiverse. Former Victoria’s Secret icon Mandy Welty, Miss Finland Adelaide Botty Van den Bruele, and visionary curator and elite runway model Dr. Jessica Konopka closed the show in a dazzling fusion of high fashion and pioneering digital art — presented in honor of Laurence Gartel’s newest robotic painting series, Creationism.
Creationism: Digital Art Inspired by Lunar Exploration
The showcase highlighted Laurence Gartel’s latest art series, Creationism — a robotic painting collection inspired by the Artemis II Moon Mission with NASA and SpaceX. Select works from the series are confirmed to launch to the Moon in 2027 as part of icMercury’s “Art to the Moon” project, marking a distinctive convergence of digital art and space travel.
Widely recognized as the “Father of Digital Art,” Gartel’s career spans decades of pioneering experimentation and influential collaborations, including work alongside Andy Warhol and Nam June Paik, as well as projects with major global brands such as Absolut Vodka, Coca-Cola, and Disney. His Creationism series continues this legacy through a vibrant, glitch-infused fantasy- multiverse visual language that pays homage to human ingenuity and creative evolution.
A First-of-Its-Kind Creative Collaboration
icMercury’s creative collaboration with the New York Fashion Week February 2026 Boutique VIP Showcase — produced by CosMODA Alliance and Empresse Atelier — represents a first-of- its-kind initiative. As part of icMercury’s Art to the Moon program, the partnership highlights an emerging dialogue between fashion, digital art, and space, reflecting new possibilities for how creativity and culture may extend beyond Earth.
This event underscored a shared vision among collaborators: that artistic expression, technological innovation, and human imagination are increasingly interconnected — from the runway to the Moon.
