Willy Chavarria Wants to See Something New | office ICONS – FESCH.TV

Willy Chavarria Wants to See Something New | office ICONS & FESCH.TV:

For the month of September, office partnered with Alpha Industries to highlight eight icons in New York culture. Each one of our September cover stars has shaped the next frontier across fashion, arts, culture, and beyond.

Since launching his eponymous label in 2015, our first September cover star Willy Chavarria has become one of the most exciting names in fashion. Known for the poignant and often political themes of his collections, Chavarria’s shows over the last few seasons have injected New York Fashion Week with a sorely needed burst of energy and meaning — and his latest Spring/Summer ‘25 show, “América,” was no exception.

Even more striking than the well-deserved buzz that has come to surround his designs is Chavarria’s disarming warmth and earnestness, particularly in an industry where success is often assumed to come with a standoffish armor. As we filed out of the historic JP Morgan Building after his last show just a few days ago, other attendees and I exchanged our favorite Willy stories, recounting all the times he had shown an unexpected kindness to us or someone we knew, in a moment when he didn’t have to. Behind the scenes of his cover shoot for this story, his publicist tells me about how often she has to remind him not to hand out his personal phone number so freely to the admirers and aspiring collaborators he meets.