Disgraced designer Alexander Wang has returned to NYFW after a years-long exile — but can he make a full comeback?

Alexander Wang’s return to nan NYC runway has nan manner world abuzz.

The designer will premiere his outpouring 2026 postulation connected Friday — Wang’s first charismatic New York Fashion Week quality since 2018 and, notably, his biggest section scatter since being accused of groping and drugging antheral and transgender models successful precocious 2020.

Those claims, which Wang initially deemed “baseless” earlier issuing a mea culpa successful 2021, prompted calls for nan designer to beryllium canceled.

But will this NYFW beryllium his comeback?

Wang, 41, did not respond to The Post’s requests for remark — though section manufacture insiders had plentifulness to opportunity connected nan designer’s campaign.

Mars Scott, an NYC-based manner expert, predicts Wang’s NYFW reappearance will beryllium well-received by diehard fans and critics alike. 

“Fashion icons don’t really get canceled — they conscionable get called retired for a small bit,” Scott told The Post. “Redemption is almost ever connected nan array because of really quickly news cycles and societal media movements alteration — it’s easy for group to forgive [and forget].”

Scott besides credits A-listers for illustration Rihanna, Tate McCrae, Ice Spice and Tyla for keeping Wang’s apparel de la mode — despite nan accusations. 

“Once definite celebrities statesman supporting a designer aliases brand, a cancellation won’t stick,” he added.

And Wang — who’s hosted respective runway shows successful nan years since nan fuss, including 2 off-schedule Fashion Week fêtes — is already whetting nan appetites of tastemakers pinch tidbits astir his latest looks.

At nan apical of nan month, nan couturier teased nan title of nan collection, “The Matriarch,” to his 5.7 cardinal Instagram followers, writing, “The Matriarch show is dedicated to each female who embodies strength, complexity and power.”

He told Vogue that nan fits will salary homage to “alpha females,” for illustration his mother, Ying Wang, who possesses “that cognition and that sensibility of conscionable being successful control.” 

“It’s not defined by masculine codes, but by their ain benignant of feminine strength,” Wang explained of his newest work, which will return halfway shape astatine 58 Bowery. It’s nan erstwhile HSBC building successful Chinatown, other nan Manhattan Bridge, that Wang reportedly purchased for $9.5 cardinal past month.

Wang — whom Scott recalls being nan city’s hottest “It” designer of nan 2010s, owing to his signature ripped jeans, ribbed tanks and leather outerwear — is known for speckling his shows pinch superstars.

But he has remained tight-lipped connected which — if immoderate — of nan “who’s who” mightiness beryllium successful attendance, either connected nan runway itself aliases successful nan beforehand row.

Over nan years, nan visionary has antecedently tapped everyone from apical models for illustration Gisele Bündchen, Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner to Hollywood heavyweights including Paris Jackson and Dennis Rodman for his over-the-top, ultra-immersive productions.

But for his NYFW resurgence, Wang whitethorn beryllium placing much accent connected nan connection he hopes to convey done his apparel — alternatively than nan glitterati who deterioration them.

His “Matriarch” is, somewhat aptly, symbolized by nan Mandarin characteristic for a female phoenix, a mythical animal that dies successful flames, but rises from nan ashes pinch renewed spot — a revival that immoderate manner idol, fallen from grace, would apt want.

And astir of them get it — eventually.

John Galliano, erstwhile imaginative head for Givenchy, Dior and Maison Margiela, was fixed a 2nd chance successful nan spotlight aft making antisemitic remarks, resulting successful a dislike crime condemnation successful 2011.

Galliano, now 64, has since reclaimed his VIP status, precocious dressing hotshots for illustration Kim Kardashian, Zendaya and Bad Bunny successful Margiela for nan 2024 Met Gala. 

Dolce & Gabbana besides escaped galore calls for its cancellation, including a 2015 “#BoycottDolceGabbana” charge, led by Grammy victor Elton John, sparked aft nan designers called children calved to cheery couples via IVF “synthetic.”

Efforts to blacklist nan Italian manner location resurfaced successful 2018, triggered by claims of taste appropriation and nan promotion of racist stereotypes successful an ill-fated ad.

Still, bigwigs for illustration Sabrina Carpenter, Benson Boone, Kim K and Lauren Sanchez — who wore a custom, mermaid-line bridal gown by nan marque for her multimillion-dollar June nuptials to Amazon mogul, Jeff Bezos — routinely stone D&G garb.

The indestructibility of nan luxe labels and nan masterminds down them doesn’t travel arsenic a daze to cancel civilization skeptics specified arsenic popular civilization historiographer Kathryn Lofton.

The Yale University professor told The Post that an effort to permanently snub a haute location of couture aliases a designer, for illustration Wang, is virtually futile successful a nine prone to leader worship. 

“People go icons because different group tie powerfulness from what they represent,” said Lofton, noting nan allure of Wang’s effortlessly cool artistic — a Y2K-era style that’s presently regaining fame pinch Gen Zers. She says nan posh powers-that-be mightiness afloat re-embrace Wang pinch unfastened arms. 

But only if his NYFW garb hits nan mark. 

“Being an icon has very small to do pinch facts and everything to do pinch fantasy,” said Lofton. “The mobility will beryllium if group still want nan fantasies Wang designs.”

But arsenic he awaits nan verdict from critics and trendsetters who’ll determine if his Fashion Week return was either a deed aliases a miss, Wang seems to beryllium doing his champion to time off nan scraps of his intersexual misconduct chaos connected nan cutting floor.

“You can’t bask nan peaks if you can’t navigate nan valleys,” he told Glossy this week. “We’ve had debased moments, and we’ve had precocious moments, but you’ve sewage to ever move forward.

“That’s what I attraction on.”