The J.Crew x HommeGirls Collection Is Full of Cool Summer Classics

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. J.Crew has teamed up with indie zine HommeGirls to create a capsule collection of summery sweaters, cut-off straight-leg jeans, and versatile accessories with a distinctly vintage feel. The collection arrives during J.Crew’s 40th anniversary year, in step with HommeGirls’ Volume 9 issue that pays homage to the brand and its iconic mail-order catalogs. Before the instant gratification of fast fashion engulfed the apparel market, J.Crew’s catalogs served similar to today’s ‘drops,’ attracting mass inspiration and establishing J.Crew’s heritage aesthetic as a cultural landmark. “Looking back at the old catalogs, whatever was in the zeitgeist was happening at the brand, just on a different level. In the ‘90s, there was grunge in the catalogs. The slip dress was in the J.Crew catalog in the ‘90s in a big way,” J.Crew creative director Olympia Gayot explains in her interview with HommeGirls for the issue.  J.Crew x HommeGirls is a collaboration between Gayot and HommeGirls’ editor in chief and celebrated designer Thakoon Panichgul. The Thai-American fashion force began his career as a writing assistant at Harper’s Bazaar before enrolling at Parsons School of Design and proceeding

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