Wednesday, September 12: Proenza Schouler
Designers: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez

• “Mind-blowingly cool. … They built on the foundation of last season’s experiment with a boxy, oversized silhouette, playing with fragments of images, colors and textures that flew by like so many pixels in our visually-overloaded digital world.” {All The Rage/Los Angeles Times}
• “The digital-print satin dresses decorated with neon nailheads on the tops and grommets on the bottom that served as the finale were only as Proenza Schouler can do.” {The Associated Press}
• “Modernity is further underscored by the clever application of grommets where someone with rather less ingenuity might settle for studs.” {The Cut/New York Magazine}
• “A mix-and-match approach to colors, materials, and textures worked brilliantly, especially when tricked out with sporty touches.” {Daily Front Row}
• “Perforated leather, reptilian prints, and studs and grommets were aplenty; and just as we were thinking this collection was as far from spring as it could be, the Proenza boys sent out feminine printed chiffon dresses that added a necessary lightness but retained the strength seen on the other bulkier pieces.” {FashionEtc}
• “From seriously hip leather and python patchwork vests to sexy-grunge halters, they provided a contemporary wardrobe of separates and frocks with plenty of personality.” {Grazia Daily Magazine}
• “Why the duo showed their densely decorated, digital-age collection in a grungy, condemned building way downtown in the financial district is as much of a mystery as how they piece together their wondrous concoctions.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “‘How was it getting here?’ Jack McCollough asked before the Proenza Schouler show on Wednesday. ‘Was it too far?’ ‘Here’ was an empty building on Beekman Street, an early skyscraper near City Hall whose scarred walls and cavernous rooms contained unimaginable stories. And, no, it was not too far to travel for a collection as rich and varied in its layers as the spring Proenza show.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “McCollough and Hernandez claimed Tumblr as a point of reference, citing its random associations and the delight-producing effects of happenstance. They may be card-carrying members of the digital generation, but they’re also incredibly hard workers. Kudos to them for setting the bar ever higher.” {Style.com}
• “With a collection of assured modernity, shown in the majestic shell of a nineteenth-century building, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez seemed to still and quiet the noise and the chaos of our too-much-informational age.” {Vogue.com}
• “Building on the idea of collage, the boys constructed a collection with a decoupage quality, bringing together divergent ideas and smashing them together to exploit the garish beauty in their polarities.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “The designers dove down that clickable rabbit hole and came out at the highest resolution, showcasing their coolest, newest, most ‘now’ ideas. Let the superlatives rip.” {WWD}