Designer Maisie Schloss resides that bi-coastal life. She’s based mostly in Los Angeles, however the spring assortment from her label, Maisie Wilen, was launched digitally as a part of New York Trend Week. The lineup was a intelligent ode to Schloss’s dwelling base, however there’s one thing intrinsically New York about her viewpoint.
This season, the designer ventured into “recent, clear minimize daywear,” folding cotton workwear kinds into her in any other case knit-heavy lineup. The items had been printed with nods to Los Angeles: Trippy pictures of coyotes (“they’re all over the place,” mentioned Schloss), graphic palm timber, and even online-sourced fan-art from Golden Age Hollywood stars. To proceed the show-biz theme, Schloss visited movie provide shops and turned supplies similar to silicone sand, plaster, fishing line, and angel wings into clothes and skirts. This scrappiness speaks to the New York in Schloss, as does the styling of her garments—this solid of fashions seems to be straight out of the Decrease East Facet.
“My work performs on how viewing one thing on {a photograph} versus seeing it in actual life alters your perspective,” Schloss mentioned, explaining the way in which this season’s prints wrapped and warped the physique along with her playful, hyper-digital method. There’s one thing meta—and barely amusing—about discussing how pictures warp our perspective and understanding of issues whereas previewing Schloss’s newest assortment over Zoom. The garments photographed for this lookbook undoubtedly exist, however are these within the pictures actual? Time to cease asking questions. Ceci n’est pas une Maisie Willen gown.
