Runway to Watchlist: 5 Fashion Movies and Shows on Tubi for NYFW
Go beyond NYFW with five fashion movies and shows on Tubi covering iconic designers, street style, sustainability, and runway history.
Fashion month has officially landed in New York, which means the runways are running, the sidewalks have become unofficial photo shoots, and somewhere in Manhattan, someone is wearing an outfit you could never explain to your group chat but desperately need anyway.
New York Fashion Week may give us the looks, but fashion has never been just about the clothes. There are designers turning runways into theater, photographers hunting for the next street-style moment, decades of history behind the shows, and an industry constantly asking what or who comes next. So while NYFW takes over New York and your feed, Tubi has five pick to go beyond the front row, from the history of Fashion Week itself to Alexander McQueen's boundary-pushing career and the people turning New York's sidewalks into their own runway.
Your all-access pass starts here. No impossible-to-get invitation required. Still craving more runway drama? Go inside the workroom with our Project Runway deep dive, then keep the wardrobe change going in Tubi’s Fashion Forward collection, where designers, models, fashion icons, and plenty more style stories are ready for their close-up.
The Tents
Before New York Fashion Week became a global spectacle, there were, quite literally, the tents.
The famous Bryant Park tents helped bring New York's increasingly chaotic collection of runway shows under one roof, and The Tents takes us back through the era that helped transform New York Fashion Week into the institution filling our feeds today. Designers, editors, models, and other fashion insiders unpack how the shows evolved and what happened once fashion finally had a centralized stage.
Watching it during NYFW feels a little like unlocking the fashion-world prequel. The venues have changed, the front row has evolved, and social media has turned every sidewalk into another show, but the obsession with seeing what comes next? Still very much in season.
Videofashion: Designers
You know the labels. Now meet the people whose names are stitched into them.
Ralph Lauren, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Rodarte, Marc Jacobs, and more get their own episodes in Videofashion: Designers, which looks beyond the finished collections to the creative identities and careers behind some of fashion's most recognizable names. The series turns the runway into a history lesson (minus the textbook) with individual designer profiles that make it dangerously easy to keep clicking “next episode.”
The Ralph Lauren episode earns particularly good timing this week, with the designer once again part of the conversation surrounding New York's Spring 2027 fashion calendar. Call it Fashion Week homework without the homework energy: pick a designer, study the archive, then return to your feed considerably more prepared to have opinions.
McQueen
Alexander McQueen didn't just send clothes down a runway. He built worlds and then invited fashion inside them.
The documentary McQueen traces the late British designer's journey from his beginnings as a tailor to creating one of fashion's most provocative and influential houses. Through archival footage and accounts from people close to him, the film explores the extraordinary imagination behind collections that could be beautiful, unsettling, theatrical, and occasionally all three before the model reached the end of the runway.
During a week built around asking what's next?, this is a reminder of what happens when somebody decides the runway itself can be part of the answer. McQueen didn't simply want you looking at the clothes. He wanted you feeling something. Mission accomplished.
Street Style: Homecoming
Plot twist: some of Fashion Week's best looks never make it onto the runway.
Filmmaker Kennedy Lucas returns to New York during Fashion Week in Street Style: Homecoming, using the event as an entry point into the fashion, art, food, design, and people shaping the city's culture. Instead of keeping the camera locked inside the shows, the documentary turns toward the city around them, and suddenly the sidewalk has its own dress code.
That feels especially fitting in the era of the street-style photo dump, fit check, and “ID on the jacket PLEASE” comment section. NYFW might happen inside the venues, but its influence spills onto the streets almost immediately. Street Style: Homecoming understands that sometimes the person walking to the show is serving just as much as the person walking in it.
Fashion Reimagined
Fashion loves asking what's next. Fashion Reimagined asks a slightly harder question: at what cost?
Creating a sustainable clothing collection sends designer Amy Powney much further into fashion's supply chain than she initially expected in Fashion Reimagined. What begins with one collection becomes an investigation into where materials originate, who makes our clothes, and what it would actually take to create more ethical and sustainable fashion.
It's a fitting final look for an industry constantly reinventing itself. Trends can change between seasons, but questions around sustainability, sourcing, and fashion's environmental footprint aren't disappearing when the runway lights turn off. This one looks past what's hanging on the rack and checks the tag.