To coincide with The Row's 15th anniversary, the designers take part in an oral history of their seminal brand.
is one of my closest friends. People often ask me in the restaurant, what’s the new trend or what are people cooking now and what’s going to be the next thing in food and what’s new just doesn’t interest me at all. What interests me is the kind of progression of the work that people do.I’m sure, if we looked at the collections from the beginning and if we were to review them, I think there’s a story there within itself.
In 2010, The Row held its first show at New York Fashion Week. The next season they cancelled their show at the last minute due to late-arriving samples, instead choosing to hold an intimate salon presentation in Paris. It heralded the beginning of unconventional presentations for the brand, often intimate and agelessly cast and, more recently, based around sculptures by legendary artists in their own West Village showroom.
or even a show for 60 people in their show-room. They made it what a show should really be, rather than just something pleasing to journalists or buyers.You roll with the punches. You have to be flexible. It’s helpful and important to work with a team you don’t have to micromanage. You know what to expect from them. They know how to work with you. Everything is aligned. Because putting on a presentation is a lot of work.
The Row has become known for its discreet, modest style of clothing. Hemlines often skim the floor, armholes are dropped for a more generous fit, and the clothes presented layered on top of each other. As a result, a diverse array of women – different sizes, nationalities, ages and tastes – have become devoted customers.Undoubtedly, the world’s most famous, most exposed, most discreet and most style-obsessed women have an affinity with The Row because of the women behind it.
Perhaps the world’s fascination with Mary-Kate and Ashley is due to the fact that they are twins. Much has been made of Mary-Kate’s whimsical yin to Ashley’s entrepreneurial yang. But they were both businesswomen in pre-school, billion-dollar brands by middle school. Duality comes naturally to them, perhaps because they are twins but also because they have navigated the balance between commercial and creative for decades.We like working together and we like having that dialogue.
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