Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy do wonder whether they will ever work for a fashion house that is not their own.
“There’s probably not one designer in the world who if they came to you and said we want you to design Chanel, well, you’re going to want to try that,” Kate Mulleavy said during a new episode of the Netflix podcast “Present Company,” with former Vanity Fair editor Krista Smith. “So I think that there are certain houses and mythologies that would be so intriguing and definitely ones that you would maybe jump at the chance for.”
But there is a sense of obligation among the sisters to their long-independent brand, not only the sense of freedom and control they have over their designs and output, but because it’s one of the relatively few women-operated and controlled names in fashion.
“It’s very difficult as women in this field, there aren’t very many women designers or people that are heads of their own companies, and you do feel that over the years,” Laura Mulleavey said. “I feel like we get to talk about it more now and it’s very nice. But at the beginning you felt a little bit as though [designing
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