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June 5, 2008 9:33 am
You may not know Jeffrey Monteiro’s name, but there’s almost no doubt you know his clothes. After five years behind the scenes at Mayle and a more recent two and a half years as the design director at Derek Lam, Monteiro is finally striking out on his own: His eponymous label debuts this fall, and to judge by the buys already recorded from Barneys, Satine, and few other pace-setting stores, his will be a name on many a stylish girl’s lips come September. “I like to work from the outerwear in,” he explains. “I start with the coat, and then it’s like I’m peeling back the layers of the story.” The clothes are pajama-themed, detail-driven, and coyly androgynous. “I was imagining the kind of girl who’s confident enough that she could just shrug on a fantastic coat over a pair of men’s pajamas and walk out the door,” he says, though he goes on to point out that the pajama inspiration is more implied than announced. “Mostly, I was just trying to create the kind of clothes that a woman puts on and immediately feels like, you know, aaaahhhh.”
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