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Global Impact

Crossing datelines, eras, and climatic zones, design has never been less defined by borders. Six fashion insiders reveal the places that inspire them most, from New York to Milan to London—and beyond.


By Neville Wakefield   Photographed by Julian Broad

Proenza Schouler
New York

BACKSTORY Fashion's most promising newcomers. Their studio is in Manhattan's Chinatown, but their designs—cotton voile blouses, high-waisted sequined pencil skirts, baby doll slips, fur-trimmed boleros—draw on old-world couturiers: Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior. SIGNATURE STYLE A classically New York pairing—uptown and downtown. Twenty-five-year-olds Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez met as students at New York's Parsons School of Design, sold their first collection (their senior thesis) to Barneys, and named their label, Proenza Schouler, after their mothers. MUSES "Last season we were really into the painter Mark Rothko. We loved those muted browns, gunmetals, and whites." HANGOUT The patrician National Arts Club, on New York's Gramercy Park. "There's a certain timelessness to the space. That's something we try to achieve with our clothes." NEXT COLLECTION Prints designed by the artist collective LansingDreiden, which shows at Rivington Arms, a Lower East Side gallery. VACATION SPOT Montauk. "It's all about surf and turf."



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