R13

There’s nothing like a 60 second video to make you look at things a little differently.A few days ago, R13’s Chris Leba saw an Instagram video in which a content creator broke down a brand that he had noticed many K-Pop stars wearing. “Let…

“If the R13 girl had to go to a black tie party, what would she wear?”That’s the question Chris Leba kept asking himself after the holiday season had him ruminating on elegance. The R13 girl has an elusive cool, an edgy, undeniably downtown…

“How do you make something that can live through so many different seasons?” That was the question Chris Leba asked at a pre-fall preview at R13’s SoHo store. Rather than react by doing more, his instinct was to streamline. “I was trying to…

Chris Leba of R13 loves making clothes. During a walk-through of the collection late last night at the label’s store in SoHo, he couldn’t help but point out every process and construction detail it took to arrive at his spring 2023…

R13 has been blowing up its proportions of late, extending blazers into Lurch-like hoodies and supersizing knits into post-Cobain shapes. For resort 2023, Chris Leba and co. have one of their boldest propositions yet: What if backpacks were…

Chris Leba describes his R13 collections as “a sentence.” As with any good story, “you need to use all the words,” he said on video call. Pre-pandemic, R13 delighted in graphic grunginess: straightforward, big, baggy clothes. Cool, but not…

I have a problem. Somehow, despite owning drawers and drawers of sweatshirts, I cannot stop buying more. Here’s what happens: I go to boutiques or department stores with the intention of buying new jeans, maybe finding appropriate…

There’s very little that’s proper about R13, but the brand does deal in classics. For pre-fall, founder Chris Leba went to the source for classic subversions of propriety: Malcolm McLaren and the Brit punk era. A photo of McLaren in a…

Alienware’s new Aurora R13 gaming desktop comes with Intel’s newly released 12th Gen Alder Lake chip and a brand-new design. You can choose anything from the Core i5-12600KF up to an i9-1200KF, as well as a range of Nvidia graphics…

R13’s Chris Leba doesn’t really care much for this review. When I first joined a Zoom call to discuss spring 2022, Leba wasn’t there, sending the stylist Sophia Álvarez (who did not style this lookbook but acted as a sort of…