Rachel Scott, the founder of Diotima and the creative director of Proenza Schouler, put on two major shows in five days at New York Fashion Week. Indeed, her debut at Proenza was among the most anticipated shows of the week, with fellow designers like Maria Cornejo and Raul Lopez of Luar showing their support from the front row.
“There was a lot of my soul that I poured out in one week,” Scott tells Nicole Phelps on this Wednesday’s episode of The Run-Through. “I’d say it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”
For her Diotima show on Sunday, Scott collaborated with the estate of Wilfredo Lam, the late Cuban artist and current subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Scott has long admired Lam, and she found inspiration not only in the aesthetic beauty of his canvases but also the strong anti-imperialist statements in his work. Scott felt compelled to make her own political statement this season, given the many crises unfolding both in the US and around the world.
She also shared stories from her childhood growing up in Jamaica and her favorite memories from her internship at Vogue. Hear the whole thing up above.