Alexander Wang is barely out of college and has already taken the fashion industry by storm, and the 2008 CFDA Fashion Awards nominee shows no signs of slowing down.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Wang moved to New York City at eighteen to try his hand at designing clothes. After just one year of studying design at Parsons and interning at Teen Vogue, Wang launched an eponymous collection his sophomore year, immediately winning fashion editors over with his selection of perfectly crafted cashmere sweaters.
Here he describes his latest collection: "We want to create clothes that are timeless and classic," Wang said a few days before his show. "Our girl wants investment pieces." Those are mature words coming from downtown fashion's pied piper—but Wang's take on "timeless" means a classic gray sweatshirt fused with a corset, or cut short and boxy and worn over lace-up caramel leather shorts. The look here was varsity pinup, as if a bevy of cool but wayward high-school girls had raided the locker room armed with a pair of scissors. Ribbed athletic socks with sliced-out backs were tucked into tasseled wedgie loafers and rugged, zippered sandal boots. There was a wink-nudge cleverness to "tighty whitey" dresses and a bag that looks like a deflated football, though other bits of fun in this vein will be too costumey to appear very often outside of magazine shoots.
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