Ever since Thakoon and Mayor Bloomberg sported 'em to this year's CFDA awards, not to mention Chuck Bass perpetually rocking one on everyone's favorite Monday-night guilty pleasure, I can't seem to escape the bowtie. But, like all fashion phenomena, it's hard to clarify if it's mere coincidence that the necktie alternative has made appearances all over New York Fashion Week, or if it's a bona fide trend. Last night at the Kisan store opening, I spotted not one, but two especially stylish men sporting the classic accessory. Need more evidence? Just look here, here, here, here, here, and here, plus this cravatish thing, and even one for the ladies.

"It's huge right now," said Cator Sparks, a writer who regularly contributes to the New York Times' T Style blog; he was wearing a plaid bowtie last night. "All of the gay editors are wearing one right now," he added. I'd have to agree; I spotted both PAPER Magazine's Paul Johnson-Calderon and Fashion Week Daily's Adam Schneider wearing bowties at Rag and Bone's after-party just a few days ago. Style.com's Derek Blasberg is likewise seen sporting a bowtie more often than not. "I think it's great," Sparks said. "I've been doing the dandy thing for 10 years now ... I wear the death out of them," gushes the Atlanta-born and bred Sparks, who credits his Southern upbringing as his primary style inspiration. But fashion editors aren't the only ones. Fashion designer Juan Carlos Abando, who showed his SS09 collection today in Chelsea, had on a YSL bowtie "from back in the day." And back at Kisan, I spotted Tim Goossens, a curator as PS. 1, in a black leather bowtie by Timo Weiland.