Ella Emhoff has debuted on the catwalk of the American label Proenza Schouler at New York Fashion Week.
Like many other brands, Proenza Schouler presents its fall-winter 2021 women’s clothing collection digitally, yes, due to health and safety concerns due to the pandemic.
Ella Emhoff to Proenza Schouler Credit: Daniel Shea / Proenza Schouler
The video for his campaign makes the concrete perimeter of New York’s Parrish Art Museum a makeshift track. According to program notes, the range aims to “comfort, inspire and empower today’s women.”
The collection combines crisp, structured tailoring with hooded knitwear and a wide range of fun features, from long-striped sleeves and soft padded slippers to leather socks under structured stilettos.
In a recorded interview for NYFW at Springs Studios in London, Emhoff admitted to being nervous on the first show. “I definitely lost a little sleep the night before,” he said in conversation with Proenza Schouler designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. “I mean I’m walking for the first time, I’m in a professional environment for the first time … It was a very epic first experience with the fashion world.”
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Plans to create a brand of their own also seemed to be on the horizon. “For a long time, when I was younger, I wanted to be a designer,” she said. “Then I took it a little more seriously, I started taking courses at Central Saint Martins for two summers … It definitely exposed me to the intensity of design school.”
Emhoff has been weaving for thirteen years and considers his designs unisex. “I want to see guys, girls, people, everyone wearing colorful striped pants or my dresses,” she said. “I think it would be great.”