Zero + Maria Cornejo

Maria Cornejo has spent spring on the road, visiting stores around the US—Austin, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit. In Denver, where she put on a fashion show at the Contemporary Museum of Art with her retail partner, Max, a ZMC superfan…

Maria Cornejo is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her label this year. As designers often do when faced with such a milestone, she looked at previous collections and brought back some of her favorites. Devotees of the brand know that…

Next year Maria Cornejo will celebrate 25 years in business. Twenty-five years as a woman-led, independent brand is quite an achievement in this male-dominated world of multinational conglomerates. In the late ’90s, when she launched the…

“Everything is quite ugly now. We need prettiness.” Maria Cornejo served up that assessment on an early morning visit to her New York studio and showroom, and who can argue with her? Crises local and global keep multiplying, none more…

Pants, not dresses, are Maria Cornejo’s best selling category these days. That’s a fairly significant shift for Cornejo, a designer whose curving seams and collapsing volumes make for dress shapes as flattering as they are easy to wear. It…