The It Girl is known for dressing notoriously well, it’s no surprise when the actor and fashion muse Chloe Sevigny opened the show for Proenza Schouler Saturday to a room full of her celeb peers.
The design duo behind Proenza Schouler, jack mccullough and Lazaro Hernandez, took fashion show attendees on a display of their reality and the spirit of the everyday woman at the Chelsea Factory New York fashion week. Named after their mother’s maiden name, the two designers honored women both new and old with their latest collections. He said it was an evolution of the wardrobe of the sophisticated intellectual woman that he has been designing for over 20 years. As they have grown, she has also grown.
“It was totally a reflection of the women in our lives,” McCullough said after the show. “This was the first season where we made a mood board out of headshots of the women in our lives.”
The models could easily walk off the runway into the streets of New York City in their effortlessly cool looks. Hernandez said she wanted a break from the “Instagram clothes” or flashy dressing often seen on social media.
Models entered the runway with barely-there makeup looks from behind a transparent film backdrop, as words by author Otessa Moshfegh were recited over speakers by Sevigny accompanied by a musical composition by Arca.
“This is the beginning of something new for us,” Hernandez said.
The layout of the show gave attendees an intimate up-close look at fabric details like glittery over the knee boots and pops of color jutting out from cutouts around the models’ legs, giving them the freedom to move. Models raced around the runway in everything from carefully tailored blazers with bolo tie-like belts, knit sweaters, leather skirts and PVC pants to snow-hued velvet dresses.
The designers conceptualized a woman’s “outer shell” and how it would look and feel on a Proenza Schouler woman. In one such costume, Hernandez and McCullough molded a metallic fabric bodysuit over the model’s body.
TikTok stars, fashion influencers and even Ella Emhoff, the step-daughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, were in attendance.
Sienna Miller, Meghan Fahey and Natasha Lyonne of “White Lotus” fame stopped backstage to congratulate the designers after the show. But McCullough and Hernandez couldn’t hide their excitement at the news that Marc Jacobs was in attendance. The pair had idolized Jacobs as budding designers and McCullough had previously interned for the designer.