Rachel Comey

Let’s get something out of the way: Rachel Comey isn’t launching a maternity collection. The idea behind this season’s lookbook was to capture women in many phases of life; there’s a young Paulina Porizkova lookalike, a PR maven, and, yes,…

Over a recent breakfast Rachel Comey was reminiscing about the Chelsea flea market. In the 1990s, before zoning laws made way for luxury high rises on Sixth Avenue, antique dealers and junk collectors turned the empty lots from 24th to 27th…

Last month, Rachel Comey hosted an evening of readings at her SoHo shop. It was a dismal January night, cold and rainy, but you wouldn’t have known it from the crowd of authors, readers, and Comey customers that packed inside. Among them…

Rachel Comey was reading The Candy House by Jennifer Egan when this pre-spring collection was set up in her Broadway showroom early this summer. We were talking books because she’d worked up a collaboration with the New York Review of…

There comes a moment in August when the truth becomes unavoidable. Summer is ending, the leaves in Central Park are “not exactly faded but fading,” as Joan Didion once wrote, and September with its back-to-real-life schedule is bearing down…

Lately, Rachel Comey is everywhere. The quilted coat from her Target collaboration—everyday-easy and instantly identifiable in a vivid floral print—popped up all over town this winter. Earlier this month, the designer was name-checked in a…

Seeing a pre-spring collection in the showroom in mid June and writing about it for Vogue Runway in mid October, it dawns on you just how much designing clothes is a leap of faith. It’s never been easy to know how the world will feel four…

What was most surprising about this rebooted fashion week after 18 months of pandemic is how little had changed. Sure, there were vaccination checks and masks and outdoor venues, but beyond the COVID protocols the runways looked much the…

Rachel Comey put on her first New York Fashion Week show on September 8, 2001. Waris Ahluwalia, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Lutz, and sundry other downtown show ponies modeled her skinny men’s shirts. The collection, which we’re publishing on…