Philosophy
Eckhaus Latta is a New York-based womenswear and menswear label characterized by an enigmatic, fragmented and disheveled aesthetic, combined with contemporary materials and modern fabrications, for a concept-driven fashion.
The brand was founded by designers Zoe Latta and Mike Eckhaus, united by passion for art and fashion; they met studying textile design and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design. After the graduation, they worked with designers such as Marc Jacobs and did projects for Urban Outfitters and Opening Ceremony.
Eckhaus Latta made its debut at New York Fashion Week in 2012. Emulating the progressive and experimental stance of the New York art scene, they married these ideas with fashion and design to create a polar opposite to the aesthetics of the fashion world that doesn’t subscribe to categories and labels.
Using several artistic genres as stimulus, the label disregards trend by staying faithful to their belief in material: they use dead-stock fabrics like velvet upholstery and military surplus blankets, playing with volumes and sculptural elements, allowing for the fabrics and other materials to engage in one another in each piece of clothing.
Their clothes are often abstract groupings of textiles and fibers rather than fully realized garments, directly challenging the dichotomies of refinement and rawness, the machine-made and the hand-made, and the impersonal coldness of fashion and the warmth and personality of crafted clothes.
All garments are produced in the US, between New York and LA utilizing resources in local garment districts.
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