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Proenza Schouler: Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear

Runway, backstage, and front-row footage from the New York show. Watch the Proenza Schouler Spring 2012 ready-to-wear fashion show footage from Want more? Visit for more runway shows, fashion trends, shopping guides, and news about models and designers.

Released on 09/16/2011


[heavy drum beat]

[Journalist] I think it's gonna be the craziest show here

this week.

I've never experienced any of the show so I needed

to see and feel this for the first time.

[Journalist] So what did the boys tell you about

the hair beforehand?

Well they showed me like pictures of Elvis,

just bit more like she's got her dad's Pomade

and tried to do his hair and not finished it properly.

[Tim] Nostalgia for the future is one of

those abstract ideas at fashion periodically falls in love

with, but when you see what the Proenza Schouler Boys

do with it, it becomes something all together more haunting.

[drum beats]

[Interviewer] Where did we go with Proenza Schouler

this season?

We definitely went to Hawaii.

The jungle yes it's a jungle but in a very retro

and nostalgic way.

I think what these guys did

it was as much about New York urbanism.

[Interviewer] Now, you've obviously been on a journey.

I wanna know where it was.

Kinda came across this Guji architecture.

It's like a kinda of weird subdivision of

like futurist architecture from the mid-century.

Good example that.

Sought of architectures the Seattle Space Needle

that kind of like look ahead, it's like fake future.

It was a little bit of the crochet, the raffia

and the prince.


love like you know, the sense of luxury,

textile, shapes, these materials the Anaconda,

leather, the Lizard.

The thing that you actually saw is probably

what you think it is.

All the leather was actually eel skin,

all the crochet was actually plastic

those joggers of [mumbles] bathing suit jersey.

The other uppers of the shoe where actually rubber.

Rubber mixed with Stingray.

The whole thing was like synthetic.

[Oliver] The collar also I like so playful.

It's certainly more easy to wear,

it's less complex and usually there is no deck constriction.

[Ingrid] The tribalism,

it could as be as much

the tribalism let's say of a different World

but also the tribalism of youth culture.

They're not Ethnologist, they're not Anthropologist,

they're real designers.

Whatever happens in that discussion between

the two of them,

it's clearly so healthy on a creative level

because this was really thrilling.

[loud bass music]

Starring: Lazaro Hernandez, Jack McCollough

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