Proenza SchoulerAll the
yuccies
have been talking about Cuba these days (to say nothing of politicians
and business folks), eager to get into the country as it opens up to
Americans for the first time since the embargo started almost 60 years
ago and before it becomes totally overrun with McDonald's and Starbucks.
Fashion people are no different.
Lazaro Hernandez of
Proenza Schouler is Cuban-American and a recent trip to Cuba with his
design partner, Jack McCollough, inspired the resort collection they're
showing this week. Considered by many to be the most important label in
NYC, the brand is never literal and never trendy so the influence was
subtle. Some palm prints, some florals, some bare midriffs. They also
continued using grommets, which they used in their Fall show and also in
the incredible dress they designed for Kim Kardashian for the recent
CFDA awards, the most talked-about look of the entire night.
Meanwhile
in Nolita, Stella McCartney showed her resort collection in the
Elizabeth Street garden featuring Cuban dancers on stilts and hunky
waiters serving vegetarian Cuban sandwiches and chocolate cigars. The
Cuban feeling was festive but didn't really influence the clothes -- the
collection was full of Stella's signature well-tailored separates,
bright colored comfy dresses and must-have cruelty-free accessories. But
the party
did feature a vignette starring look-alikes of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
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At the Stella McCartney presentation. Photograph by Joe Schildhorn/ BFAnyc.com
At the Stella McCartney presentation. Photograph by Joe Schildhorn/ BFAnyc.com
At the Stella McCartney presentation. Photograph by Joe Schildhorn/ BFAnyc.com![]()
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