This is Hester’s Tasha Green and Mauricio Quezada again—howdy from Texas! We kicked off our tour of the Lone Star State with a birthday party for Mo in his hometown of El Paso. There was dinner and booze and a brief moment on a saddle—as they say, “When in Rome…” From there we drove through [...]

Greetings, Style.com! This is Tasha Green and Mauricio Quezada, the designers of Hester, with a postcard from the road. Whoever thinks American fashion lives solely in the streets of New York has never tested the wild frontiers of our expansive country. Knowing full well that Hester girls exist beyond our beloved metropolis, we set out [...]

The assumption, when you hear that the designers behind fledgling label Hester are former Men’s Vogue staffers, is that it’s a pet project, launched in their newly freed-up days of unemployment. Wrong. In fact, editors-turned-designers Mauricio Quezada, 25, and Tasha Green, 26,
cobbled together their first ten-plus-piece capsule collection for Spring 2009 while still on-staff, popping [...]