In the lead-up to the Proenza Schouler show on Monday, some people spoke about it with elegiac gravitas, as if the house’s “last show in New York” were a matter to mourn. Folks, as far as Jack and Lazaro are concerned, they’re moving up, to an earlier schedule during the pinnacle season of haute in the city that deifies fashion like nowhere else on Earth. Don’t cry for me, Argentina.
For New York, however, the exit of McCollough and Hernandez’s Proenza is a loss — or perhaps a milestone, and not of the happiest sort. It marks the end of an ascendant period in American fashion that saw an explosion of new talent into the mainstream, and thrust New York into the center of the proverbial international fashion conversation, a place it hadn’t often found itself and from which it has now been pushed off to the side.
Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough were on the front of that explosion. We can all read what we will into their fashion week exile, but one thing is certain: They think that right now, Paris makes more sense to them as a showcase for their work.
Backstage before their show, they admitted to having approached
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