New Classics from Three Old Friends
The Elusive Find February 11th, 2010We are so impressed with the three longtime friends behind Harvey Faircloth, one of the freshest new fashion labels to emerge in a long time. Katie Hatch toiled as a style editor at Martha Stewart, Abby Clawson Law was Senior Art Director at Kate Spade, and Mara Papa, erstwhile executive assistant to a hedge founder, once arranged to have an elephant shipped from Calcutta to California in 24 hours. (“Don’t ask,” she says, and we won’t!) Cleary resourceful and awfully creative, they got together to make classic clothes (albeit slightly—fabulously—off-kilter), the kind they could never find but really wanted to wear. Their inspirations range from the great Russian art director Alexey Brodovitch (who all but invented Harper’s Bazaar) to “the strange unexpected glamour of men wearing aprons,” and their first two collections were knockouts. We are especially crazy about this modern take on the already-ahead-of-her-time Claire McCardell: a cotton-and -silk wrap skirt from G. Gilbert with a matching black-and-white striped cotton halter. The halter also comes in white, but the skirt, with its chic wide sash and glam lines, would look just as swell with a white tank or tee (especially adorned with one of the over-the-top necklaces that abound this spring). We cannot wait to see what our new friend Harvey sends down the runway this week.
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