Road trips have the potential of being the most inspiring and head-clearing stretches of time. That is, as long as you can stand to be in the car with your travel companions for the entirety of the trip. With inspiration taken from their own road trip from Santa Fe to Wyoming, their latest collection makes it seem that Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez didn't suffer from car-induced insanity. In fact, it would appear that this trip allowed them to prosper among their ideas and the culture of the Southwest. The sunset colors were a beautiful and intensely rich ode to the desert in all of its warmly-pigmented glory. Much of the collection borrowed prints of Native American textiles, but was put through computers, and often altered to give it a pixelated appearance. Bringing it out of the literal context contributed to the collection's modernity and spoke to designers' love of renegade reinterpretation. How very
them to turn a Navajo blanket into a tapered trouser. Weaving and crochet also made marvelous appearances, commending the artisans within the Southwestern region. Velvet quite unexpectedly resurfaced in the finale section, a reinvented version of the dissolving
Fall 2009 velvet dresses, but these were somehow simultaneously more relaxed in shape and exuberant in palette. That combination of relaxation and exuberance may just be a perfect mindset to have on a road trip. I just hope I fall somewhere along those lines on my way to Portland next weekend. Perhaps then my daydreaming and perception of the experience will be just as beautiful and consuming as this collection.
Tara Gill
Isabella Melo
Liu Wen
Shu Pei Qin
Joan Smalls
Sigrid Agren
Monika Sawicka
Chloe Memisevic
Marique Schimmel
Suvi Koponen
Kelsey Van Mook
Emily Baker
Fei Fei Sun
Caroline Brasch Nielsen
Kasia Struss
Julia Stegner
Photos via style.com
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