Lafayette 148

After three seasons exploring the architectural history of the various Lafayette 148 buildings and landmarks, Emily Smith shifted gears to the great outdoors. “It’s resort, but we do more of a winter capsule,” she said at an appointment at…

Over the last few seasons Lafayette 148’s creative director Emily Smith has cited paper and old-fashioned mail, rooted in the past lives of the brand’s namesake building as a paper factory and a former post office respectively, as…

At Lafayette 148, creative director Emily Smith continues to mine the history of the brand’s namesake address building. They had discovered that before it was a garment factory, it had been a printing press, and their whole collection was…

Recently, Lafayette 148’s creative director Emily Smith found out that the brand’s original building—at 148 Lafayette Street—used to house a printing press before it was a garment factory. “I took it as an inspiration to build off this idea…

What we wear in our early adulthood tends to imprint itself in our style DNA. Once a ’90s minimalist, always a ’90s minimalist. That’s Lafayette 148’s Emily Smith to a tee, and she’s tapping into her roots—and the brand’s, it was founded in…

Lafayette 148 isn’t a new name in New York fashion. The company dates to the late 1990s, and the building that it took its name from in lower Manhattan served the city’s fashion industry for decades before that, manufacturing clothes for…