Meet the Bold Talents Remaking Fashion As We Know It
Meet the bold talents remaking fashion as we know it—from spotlighting social-justice issues on the runway and repurposing vintage fabrics to garnering audiences with Queen Elizabeth II.
Photo: Courtesy of Luca Lin and Galib Gassanoff1/17Luca Lin and Galib Gassanoff of Act n°1
Built on what its Chinese-born, Italian-raised cofounder Luca Lin calls “a recycling of childhood memories,” Act n°1 began with two sewing machines in Lin’s living room. Two years on, the duo behind the Milanese label—Lin, 25, runs it with the Georgia-born-and-raised Galib Gassanoff, 23—is summoning a nostalgia-tinted multicultural mash-up of everything from deconstructed jeans and sweatshirts to dynasty-inspired silk robes and velvet evening wear. “That mix,” says Lin, “is the beauty of planet Earth.”
Photographed by Ryan McGinley, Vogue, August 20182/17Singer-songwriter Okay Kaya wears an Act n°1 top and pants. Casadei boots.
Fashion Editor: Jorden Bickham.
Photo: Michael Waring3/17Emily Adams Bode of Bode
In a world beset with problems of overproduction and overconsumption, the namesake label of Atlanta-born, New York–based designer Emily Adams Bode, 28, which is fabricated almost entirely from vintage textiles, is a welcome wake-up call. Bode’s fall collection featured antique table and bed linens, nineteenth-century patchwork quilts, and grain sacks sourced from frequent trips to fleas like Brimfield—all reimagined into boxy trousers, museum-worthy coats, and billowy button-up schoolboy shirts accented with pussy bows.
Photographed by Ryan McGinley, Vogue, August 20184/17Model Grace Hartzel wears a Bode suit. Gucci shoes.
Photo: Sasha Arutyunova / Redux5/17Kerby Jean-Raymond of Pyer Moss
For New York born-and-raised designer Kerby Jean-Raymond, 31, design and activism are indivisible. “Pyer Moss is equal parts culture and clothing brand,” says Jean-Raymond, who routinely uses the runway as a platform to present social-justice issues and spotlight marginalized groups. His fall collection, American Also—which explores the untold stories of nineteenth-century black cowboys in everything from city-centric suiting with western-inspired topstitching to pleated pants that closely resemble chaps (there’s also a collaboration with Reebok)—“rewrites the narrative of what it means to be American,” says Jean-Raymond.
