Maria Cornejo's capsule menswear collection, available next spring, is full of the types of directional silhouettes her womenswear clients have come to love. For the tightly-edited 28 piece line, Cornejo distills her signature shapes down to a few key looks for men—a textured double-layered shirt, a concave rain jacket, soft blazers, and a pair of tailored slim pants—all with classic Zero + Maria Cornejo detailing, namely asymmetric lines and plays on volume.
Ridley Scott is finally ready to make that Gucci family film. Although it is too early to determine the cast, Scott does have a script "kind of getting there."
After ten years in Nolita--the space where the designer became, for the second time in her life, a frontrunner in the fashion world--Maria Cornejo has moved her business to a much larger space which now serves as her New York storefront, atelier, and showroom. Possibly the most architecturally riveting quality are the lead framed windows which are, to a New Yorker, the equivalent of owning a time machine to a much older, cooler version of the place they live. Leave it to Cornejo, who is always so effortlessly in-the-know.
"For me the collection has actually expanded and as it expands I gain confidence. For the first time, the best-selling thing in the collection was a print. We have never been able to sell print. People always just said to me "Oh Maria, we buy everything in black from you, we buy you for shape, we buy you for volume, we buy you for ideas, we buy Marni for print." So as the collection has gotten bigger and the buyers have gotten broader, it has given me the confidence to be more playful in a way."
-Maria Cornejo in Issue No 24 of The Journal
This past weekend we picked up a copy of The Journal and sat down with a cup of coffee to read about designer Maria Cornejo. Cornejo was an exile from Pinochet's Chile who grew up and made her name in London back in the 1980's. From there she moved to New York and after attempting to keep a low profile with her tiny Nolita boutique she became, deservedly, a high profile designer all over again. Check out our coverage of the Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring 2009 show right here, and, to purchase a copy of the Journal, click here.
We're heading to the Isaac Mizrahi show and just wanted to drop a note to say that the shoes in the Zero + Maria Cornejo Spring 09 show lived up to their reputation. The low cut white ankle boots were our favorite (there were also bohemian sandals that we're sure we'll see on my women next summer) and, paired with printed and watercolor frocks, played with a classic masculine/feminine dichotomy quit nicely. Whether it's flat oxfords paired with a feminine dress or hyper-feminine heels paired with masculine separates, the act of choosing footwear that is the exact opposite aesthetic of that which you are wearing, we think will play a big part this Spring 09. Photographer Justin William Lin is shooting with us today, and we'll bring you his photographic perspective this evening. Until then...
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