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The Pandemic Forced Designers to Embrace Upcycled Fashion
But will it change the high-fashion game for good? By Katherine Ormerod; Photographs by Charlie Engman; Styling by Becky Akinyode Jan 26, 2021 Charlie Engman
Last spring, during the first days of sheltering at home, Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez realized that they were in a bind. The world’s premium fabric mills, many based in the areas of northern Italy hardest hit by the pandemic, were all closed until further notice. How could a luxury fashion label design a new collection without any new fabric? After innumerable Zooms with suppliers, they decided to use bolts of deadstock fabric left over from past seasons. “We had this vast archive of fabrics from the past decade, and we really tapped into that and in a stran