Colin LoCascio celebrates the unpretentious playfulness that defines Queens
Like most people from Queens, I felt the need to defend my outer borough's fashion reputation last month. We all banned together when a TikToker who went viral for flaunting perplexing outfits—like neon hoodies tucked into underwear worn as pants and cartoon pajama pants layered under denim jorts—told The Cut people from Queens and Harlem just wouldn't understand.
Regardless of how you feel about her outfits, what she was suggesting was offensive and tired. People always assume the kind of style New York is famous for only exists below 14th street, meanwhile most of the trends we're seeing today originated outside of it, in places like Queens, and Harlem. Emerging designer Colin LoCascio, though, has always known that, because he's from Queens too.
His designs, which have been worn by Rosalia, Riley Keough, Iris Apatow, and Lady Gaga, are inspired by the woman he grew up around. They're loud and colorful, sequined and fringed. They feature flowers and frogs and feathers. LoCascio's clothing is made for woman whose style is as loud as her voice; the kind of woman who would more likely mention Fran Drescher as a style icon than Chloë Sevigny.
LoCascio isn't inspired by someone so smug to think their look is too high brow to be understood by people who live in a different area code, but by the women who grew up in Astoria or Forest Hills or Flushing; with immigrant parents who didn't pass down a collection or Birkin bags or a closet chock full of runway looks but a knack for mixing and matching and constantly rewearing different prints and patterns together.
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