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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