PROENZA SCHOULER @ LE BON MARCHE RIVE GAUCHE, PARIS

By Eddie Musson | 01:15

Proenza Schouler is a New York based womenswear and accessories brand founded in 2002 by designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez.

The duo met while studying at Parsons School of Design, collaborating on their senior thesis, which would eventually become their first collection as Proenza Schouler. The collection was bought in its entirety by Barneys New York. Proenza Schouler is named after the two designers’ mothers’ maiden names, Proenza being the maiden name of Hernandez’ mother and Schouler that of McCollough’s mother.

Awarded with the inaugural CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund award in 2004, three years later, Proenza Schouler was honored with the 2007 CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award. In June 2011, the designers were awarded their second CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year Award.

This brand is sold in over 100 of the most exclusive retail outlets worldwide, including Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Harvey Nichols, Colette, and Joyce.

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paris invites the designer duo Proenza Schouler New York in a series of exclusive projects. 22 February to 22 March 2014, a landmark exhibition explores the world of eclectic designers, summoning both the color and the contrast between urban and natural, industrial and organic, expertise and sophistication of materials. Through a capsule collection created exclusively for Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, the realization of a new film on creative Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez and highlighting a selection of eighty iconic silhouettes of the duo showing their journey creative, discover the creative energy of Proenza Schouler.