Designer Maria Cornejo host New Show With Artist Alice Waese and Wearing Her Own Designs as she was in Los Angeles to launch an art show and début her resort and pre-fall collections.
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Maria Cornejo is one line of
clothes out of New York that is an insiders’ fashion brand, and her New
York fashion week runway shows always prove that, as they are attended
by editors at the highest levels of the fashion business. Her clothes
are always comfortable and chic, go from day to with a quick change of
shoes or jewelry and have an avant-garde city cool-girl edge that’s
sophisticated without hitting that “arty” line too hard. In other words,
they’re rather perfect. Her pants, sweaters and leather jackets have
amazing fit and a little twis,- and her dresses achieve the impossible
trifecta: They’re sexy and comfortable and interesting. All this, and
her prices are much better than most designer clothes, but the quality
doesn’t suffer. No wonder smart women love her. Cornejo has a longtime
small
West Village boutique at Greenwich and Jane, but her eponymous
Melrose Place
space is many times the size and has the airy feeling of an art
gallery. That’s why she decided to host a small art gathering for her
friend, former employee and present artist
Alice Waese, from New York City, who creates art out of metal, silver and paper. Cornejo doesn’t get to L.A. often as she’s busy
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Back in 2005, Gareth Pugh
was living in a squat in London when all the important UK fashion
magazines attached themselves to him like a Fred Perry-clad tumor. Fresh
out of fashion school and an internship with Rick Owens, he was soon a
style-page wank fantasy, representative of the type of hijinks English
fashion clamors for. It was all justified. Gareth’s first shows featured
inflatable outfits and light-strewn garments. Everyone in attendance
over the age of 30 offered mealy-mouthed praise—like it was all very
well and fun and diverting but ultimately fey and immature. Attendees
under the age of 25, however, cheered the models and clothes down the
runway, feeling like somebody had finally reinvented fashion for the
21st century and rescued us all from retro regurgitation. Six years on,
fashion sites are overflowing with photos of androgynous kids addicted
to black who look just like Pugh. His line garners the type of attention
and praise usually reserved for the vaunted and dusty old guard. He
shows annually in Paris and New York, working and hanging out with all
the ritziest fashion people, like Karl Lagerfeld and Mario Testino. We’ve known him for a while, though, so we persuaded him to take a few minutes for the following little chat..Read on : View more Gareth’s Collection 
