Shayne Oliver Is Revitalizing America’s Avant Garde

Shayne Oliver, probably the only avant-garde designer in mainstream American fashion history, is something like a comeback king. He first put his label Hood By Air—which he ran with a collective that included filmmaker Leila Weinraub and designer Raul Lopez—on hold in 2017, and said it would relaunch on a few occasions since then. There was a short-term partnership with Helmut Lang in 2017, an interview with Kanye West that teased a “rumored” combeack in early 2019, and then a highly structured new organization announced in the summer of 2020. But the first three days of fashion week in New… Read Full Article