Inside, Paris Jackson and models Jessica Stam, Coco Rocha and Liya Kebede mingled with designers including Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, jeweler Victoire de Castellane and milliner Stephen Jones.Touring the showroom earlier in the day, Delphine Arnault noted the semifinalists were chosen from among more than 2,500 applications and were a good gauge of trends. “It’s already a huge achievement to be here,” she said of the annual event.
Irish designer Michael Stewart flipped through a portfolio to show how he sculpts the forms that underpin his sculptural jersey creations for his womenswear label Standing Ground. “This took a month, actually, but it really depends on the weather,” he said of a black raincoat with ghostly markings. “We cannot control the weather, so every piece is unique.”
“All the pattern grading is done in-house manually,” she said. “As we grow, we need to scale that process. In the next collections, we want to go through maybe new product categories that have a little bit of a more simple grading structure where we can do it digitally.” “This year, I’m the only African brand, and it was really important for me to share that Africa is not just this faraway thing, that we deserve to be center stage in the global fashion conversation,” they added.
“Basically, my dad’s a tailor, his parents were tailors, and he was able to pass down the trade. Going to design school wasn’t really a thing for me,” Best remarked. “I think now it’s like, OK, you don’t have to go to Parsons or FIT to be a designer, you just have to put the time in.”
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