Gigi Hadid Introduces the New Class of CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Designers
The 2016 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalists—a cup-runneth-over crop of emerging designer talent—enlist Gigi Hadid to show us just what they’re capable of.
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Photographed by Gregory Harris, Vogue, November 20161/10Brock Collection
Breezy and bicoastal, Californian Laura Vassar, 29 (far left), and Texan Kristopher Brock, 30 (second from left), create their unfussy-yet-elegant floral dresses, undone corsetry, and straight-cut raw jeans betwixt and between Manhattan and Newport Beach, California. Water is central to both their collection and their lives at large. “It has a sense of calmness that you can’t really replicate,” says Vassar. Spring brings paper-thin-striped taffeta pajama tops, short-sleeved shirtdresses, and gauzy Italian knits.
Vassar wears a Brock Collection dress ($1,890) and shoes. Dress at Jeffrey, NYC. The couple’s son, Charlie, wears a Brock Collection tunic and pants. Gigi Hadid wears a Brock Collection dress ($2,690) and shoes. Dress at Copious Row, Greenwich, CT. Brock wears a Thom Browne shirt.
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Photographed by Gregory Harris, Vogue, November 20162/10Chloe Gosselin
It was cherry-red patent ballerinas that first ignited the Normandy-born Chloe Gosselin’s (left) passion for footwear. “I was obsessed,” she says. “I would always be polishing them!” Currently based in Las Vegas and New York with her fiancé, magician David Copperfield, and their six-year-old daughter, Sky, the 32-year-old shoe designer launched her first curvaceous, almond-toe pump two years ago, at a time when everything was pointy—and followed that up with a Mary Jane with a mink Peter Pan collar. Her ladylike designs are disrupted with exotic bricolage, laced booties, and daring heel heights of up to 125 mm. Look for a red-carpet capsule soon.
Gosselin wears Chloe Gosselin suede Mary Janes, $700; Barneys New York, NYC. Rodarte sequined blouse and pants; fwrd.com. Hadid wears Chloe Gosselin water-snake heels, $910; Barneys New York, NYC. Rodarte lace dress; Bergdorf Goodman, NYC.
Photographed by Gregory Harris, Vogue, November 20163/10Stampd
Behind the laid-back surferisms of L.A.-based streetwear designer Chris Stamp (left)—the descriptive gnarly peppers a tour of his showroom/store/design studio—lies the heart of a retailer: The May opening of his brick-and-mortar store (along with his shoppable Instagram) was pivotal. “I grew up in a small-business atmosphere,” says Stamp, 32, whose mother was a handbag designer who also owned a luggage company. Stamp attributes the cult status of his longer-line hip-hop basics and distressed crews to “high quality at a good price. We’re carving out a new space in menswear where luxury meets street. I want to be the next Ralph Lauren.”
Hadid wears a Stampd jacket and shorts. Stamp wears a Stampd T-shirt and jeans. Rapper Vic Mensa (right) wears a Stampd bomber jacket and jeans; all at stampd.com. On Hadid: T by Alexander Wang tank top.
Photographed by Gregory Harris, Vogue, November 20164/10Morgan Lane
Morgan Curtis, 29, left, grew up immersed in all things fashion—and a sizable collection of vintage negligees—courtesy of her mother, Jill Stuart. It was only a matter of time, then, before she launched Morgan Lane, her signature line of flirty and feminine bloomers, come-hither bras and underwear, and seductively soft silk pajamas. “It’s lingerie that’s meant to be seen,” says Curtis, whose spring selections are bursting with covetable hand-painted patterns of mystical mushrooms, blown-out flowers, and bright butterflies inspired by Roxy Paine, Carsten Höller, and Alex Katz.
Hadid wears a Morgan Lane silk pajama top, $350. Model Taylor Hill (bottom) wears a Morgan Lane silk pajama top ($350) and pants ($238). Curtis wears Morgan Lane silk pajama pants, $238. All at morgan-lane.com. On Curtis: Rochambeau top.
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“We’re sole sisters,” says Marjan Malakpour, 50 (second from left), about her seven-year design partnership with her sister, Maryam, 48 (far right). Taking cues from their Iranian birthplace—along with Moroccan, Japanese, and English footwear—the California-bred stylists created a collection of boots, loafers, slides, and sandals with a rock-’n’-roll sensibility.
Hadid wears NewbarK loafers, $545. Libertine lace dress and tights. Dress at Bergdorf Goodman, NYC. Marjan wears NewbarK boots, $685. 3.1 Phillip Lim jacket. Frame jeans. Singer Maggie Rogers wears NewbarK python-print boots, $785. Libertine velvet dress; ilovelibertine.com. Albertus Swanepoel headpiece. Marteau Vintage earrings. Maryam wears NewbarK loafers, $525. Proenza Schouler rabbit-fur coat. Juan Carlos Obando tank top and trousers. All shoes at newbark.com.