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"   Photo: Getty Images  For the past several months Adam Selman has been listening to Donna Summer on repeat. This was evident at his debut presentation for New York Fashion Week last night, where Selman transformed the Algus Greenspon Gallery in Lower Manhattan into a dated, backstage dressing room, channeling the retro glam of the late &amp;#039;70s. Models lounged languidly against art deco pink walls, wearing black and cream silk jersey shirts, ultra high-cut bathing suits, and hot red stiletto pumps. &amp;quot;I took aspects of my wardrobe and put it into these girls,&amp;quot; Selman said. His favorite sweatshirt inspired an unstructured black and pink silk negligee; the neat fabric buttons of a cropped blouse were pulled from one of his well-worn baseball tees. After styling some of Rihanna&amp;#039;s most daring looks and acting as the head designer for her River Island collection, which launched last February, Selman looked to It girls of the past for his first solo collection. He took inspirations from the pages of &amp;#039;70s Cosmopolitan magazines\u2014women emboldened by their sexuality\u2014and blended it with an athletic aesthetic. If he could dress any vintage supermodel? &amp;quot;Gia Carnegie, and, if I got a second, Margaux Hemingway.&amp;quot; Appropriately, Selman selected girls for his presentation who looked like doppelgangers of iconic models. In one corner a not-quite Linda Evangelista with a sleek cropped crew cut and silk, jersey tee shirt danced slowly to the &amp;#039;70s pop filling the room; a Gia look-a-like with luscious brown curls and an open black robe perched on the arm of a sofa. Their faces were overdone with stage makeup, lids painted with thick purple or blue glitter and brightly rouged cheeks. Instead of partying for NYFW, Selman leaves tomorrow for London to join Rihanna on a second River Island collection. Next for the designer? &amp;quot;I really want to do a Korean pop band, just do something completely off,&amp;quot; he said. Before we could say our goodbyes, Selman grabbed our phone and expertly darted into the diorama of the presentation, posing with his models and taking pictures of them. The press photographers swelled and snapped eagerly at him: a designer amid his own creation, hand in hand with his wild, beautiful girls. It was hot stuff.  Photo: Kevin Tachman "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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