The Return of Patrick Cox
Patrick Cox has been seeing shades of his loafer designs from the Nineties grace runways for a few seasons, and with that, decided to jump back in the game. Cox, a onetime party fixture in London who spent a better part of the Eighties collaborating with Vivienne Westwood, had built a career on the kinds of chunky, square-toe loafers that have suddenly fallen back into favor. This fall, his name will yet again appear on store shelves with some 30 new designs for men and women based on Cox’s Nineties originals. Clunky loafers have recently become mainstays of collections by Gucci, Martine Rose and the English streetwear brand Palace. “I feel like everyone is inspired today and I felt like I would rather just track down the original — if I wanted rock-‘n’-roll jewelry, I’d just track it down,” Cox said of his drive to get back in business. Stephen Jones and Patrick Cox Tim Jenkins Since leaving his namesake brand in 2007, Cox rode out a three-year noncompete, operated an S&M-themed bakery and worked as the creative director of Geox for five years. One day he woke up in London, “after 35 years, and realized I don’t use the city anymore. I was going toFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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