Rachel Comey

Rachel Comey started with shoes - specifically, a chunky lace-up boot that became a signal of a certain kind of creative New York woman in the early 2000s. The ready-to-wear came later, and it carries the same logic: unexpected without being unwearable, specific without being precious, made for women who notice construction.

Fabrications are the story in a Comey collection. Japanese technical fabrics next to hand-woven textiles from small producers. Asymmetrical hemlines that work because of the cut, not in spite of it. Proportions that are deliberately off in ways that take a moment to read and then make complete sense. These are not easy clothes to describe, which is part of why they photograph so interestingly.

Browse the dresses and separates alongside the shoes. The full picture is worth seeing together.