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September 24, 2008 6:02 pm
As many a designer can attest, getting your senior thesis collection snapped up by Barneys is no easy feat (props to the Proenza boys). So what’s a burgeoning talent to do? Think smaller, for one. “The first entry point is always the hardest to get,” Lisa Weiss conceded at last night’s cocktail reception for recent Parsons grads at Début, the Nolita boutique she founded earlier this year. “The idea of the store was to give opportunity to designers who were just getting started building their brands. I did the fashion merchandising program at FIT, and talking to a lot of designers there I saw that it was really hard for them to get off the ground.” Thanks to the collaboration between Weiss and Parsons, a handful of young designers will be doing exactly that. Through September 28, looks from Angela Gao, Ava Ghosseiri, Sylvia Kwan, Melissa Lüning, Rachel Rymar, Sara Shahbazi, Wen Shi, Dmitry Sholokhov, Marie Christine Statz, Clara Yoo, and 2008 Womenswear Designer of the Year Stephanie Suberville will be available for purchase. Just don’t expect anything run-of-the-mill chez Weiss. “Lisa treats the store like a gallery,” Parsons dean of fashion Simon Collins remarked. “She doesn’t go for the established designers—she goes for somebody who she thinks really has something to say.”
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