With a newly launched capsule collection and her first solo show in New York, Austyn Weiner is having a moment in fashion—and beyond.
wear a full look from their debut collection—but Weiner, who counts the model as a close friend, is more interested in expression than exposure. “I’ve always been seduced by the idea of concealing and revealing parts of oneself, and that notion is practiced in both fashion and painting,” she shared pre-show.
“The canvas is a fabric, with the same qualities of movement and drama. The history of the textile plays into one’s work, whether you are cognizant of it or not. Shape and contour in fashion are the study and manipulation of the figure, which mimics my practice in a lot of ways.”Growing up, Weiner was always artistically minded—but it was after studying painting and photography at Parsons and the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design that she began channeling her talents into abstract paintings inspired by life’s ebb and flow. Vibrant, filled with pattern, and presented on canvases shaped like triangles or rhombuses, her creations are delightfully off-kilter. With her capsule collection for Each X Other, they made their way onto prints with sketches covering trench coats, cropped pants, and robes. Influenced by her mother—a native New Yorker who relocated to Miami but never adopted the tropical dress code—the clothes are geared towards nonconformists. “She wore what she wanted, when she wanted, and I have always been inspired by that unwavering uniformity in her approach to fashion,” says Weiner. “It is about being who you are and doing what you want, even if it doesn’t coincide with what is around you.” The “dark summer” theme served as an aesthetic starting point, but Weiner wanted to make sure the clothes were practical, too. Open about the body image issues she faced in her youth, she sought to create pieces that reflected a woman’s body, rather than a sample size. “Every silhouette from the capsule was constructed using my own figure,” she says. “Having grown up struggling with my body image and relationship to clothing, I wanted to take this opportunity to create shapes that feel both masculine and feminine, truthful, and classic.”Photo: Zachary Balber Weiner carries the same ethos into her personal style. The artist’s uniform has long been a fashion talking point, with the wardrobes of everyone from Frida Kahlo to Georgia O’Keefe analyzed in depth. Weiner chalks the interest up to the “juxtaposition between the creator and what is being created” and the time-honored tradition of uniforms. “Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, Karl Lagerfeld, and Steve Jobs were all artists in uniform,” she says. “They minimized their attention to vanity to maximize creative output.” While her uniform currently consists of Dries van Noten “everything,” Prada patent booties, Adidas black track pants, and a frog ring from Jaipur’s Gem Palace, Weiner understands that art and fashion are intrinsically linked. “In the studio, I have a ritual of wearing the same pants every day. I like seeing the paint build-up, and the texture rises from the fabric. It becomes a map of my labor, the palette and the combat of it all,” she says. “Everywhere I go, I leave a piece of myself and pick up a piece of a place, both physically and mentally. My wardrobe reflects that.”
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