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The Look Book Goes to the Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen Show

The Look Book Goes to the Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen Show


Camilla Carper (pictured above)
Artist and educator, Carroll Gardens

Tell me about your outfit.
Twice a year, I make a set of dressing restrictions — rules that dictate how I move through the world. This season, the rules are that I’m making all my own clothes and I’m trying to wear as much as possible. I use an equation based on volume and weight. So today I’m wearing a lot of layers — two full-body jumpsuits, followed by two pairs of bloomers, then a pair of harem pants, then a smocked shirt with sleeves. I have a dunce cap with really long gloves on top for extra flair plus another glove shoved into the dunce cap for density. Hollow space is bad.

Why all pink?
I’ve been working with the artist Jessi Highet to dye fabric to match my skin tone. Each garment ends up a slightly different color because they’re all made from different fabric types. And I’ve been changing colors a little bit. In the summer I was pretty tan, and now I’m getting pale.

Grace Jia

Fashion designer, Prospect–Lefferts Gardens

Cole Lu

Artist and writer, Park Slope

Anna Delvey

Entrepreneur, Financial District

Were you familiar with Zoe before you walked today?

I knew of her last collection, which was so nice. Now that I’ve actually gotten to wear her stuff, I can see it’s very complicated. It takes half an hour to put something on. It’s not something that you can just wear, like, out for dinner. You can’t sit in this dress because it’s padded in the back.

Shelley Fox

Professor and designer, Brooklyn Heights

Have you seen any of your former students here today?

Oh yes. Whenever you go to these things, you see graduates from years back. Zoe was my student at Parsons during covid. But they’re all in good positions. Some have their own labels. They struggle because all designers do, but they’re hanging in there. It’s nice to see them growing.

Cameron Mesirow (A.K.A. Glasser)

Musician, East Village

Camille Henrot

Artist, Upper West Side

Edith Peony

Design student, London, England

Leonelli Gabriel

Concierge and model, Bayonne, New Jersey

How did you come to walk in today’s show?

Well, at first I wasn’t interested in being in this. I tend to work with more urban designers. My agent was the one who pretty much begged me to just go out and try it and audition. And then at the fitting I loved the outfit they put me in.

Caleb Blansett

Tattoo artist, Bushwick

K8 Hardy

Artist, Chinatown

Timothy Gibbons

Costume designer, Greenpoint

Nicolaia Rips

Writer, Chelsea

How would you define your style?

As somewhere between the Frans — Drescher and Lebowitz. I grew up in the era of the ’80s supermodel, and that had an influence on how I think about fashion and self-presentation.

Lulu Yao Gioiello

Publisher, East Williamsburg

Have you seen anyone familiar here?

Actually, I ran into this girl who’s going to be running a crochet cat-hat workshop at my studio in Chinatown. We’re going to test the hats on my cat. She’s a fluffy, whiteand-gray, supposedly hypoallergenic cat named Mu

Marilu Donovan

Harpist, Ridgewood

Camille Okhio

Writer and curator, Crown Heights

Fritzie Woodard

Model and influencer, Los Angeles

Judy Collinson

Consultant and mentor, Boerum Hill

What’s your shopping philosophy?

I buy clothes to support designers I adore. Whenever I buy something new, I never wear it for at least six months or a year — maybe even longer — because it has to become part of me first. Then I can take it on.

Jill Ferraro

Founder and executive producer, Crown Heights

Photographs by Frankie Alduino

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