This season’s conversation print at Rachel Comey is a raffle ticket with a good time on it. She also blows it to a very large proportion, so the effect is almost abstract. None of these works have been produced books, but the emotions fill these resorts with food. Comey makes himself a wardrobe for creative courses from New York to Los Angeles, not by making daily staples, but by adding a little bit of alternative and quirky to these daily staples.
If these photos think of Little Eddy in Gray Gardens, it’s not entirely accidental. They were shot at Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Ceramics Studio in Rosling, New York. (Vanderbilt Whitney is the founder of Whitney’s American Museum of Art.) “Not moved yet,” Comey marvels at the studio’s mosaic stone floors, wall murals and empty kitchen cabinets. “That way, it’s like a grey garden.”
Naturally, there is an atmosphere of an idol layer that likes art on the clothes. See the Opening Appearance Conflict Photography and Country Club’s 1980s embroidered corduroy shirt, paired with a Seafoam green gown with brushed Mohair Man’s coat and bedroom slippers, or a long skirt printed on a long skirt with a long skirt with rhinestone broch brochned pinned waitned.
Comey’s signature (at least one of them) is how she combines “nut, novel” details with excellent wearable style. The example of this season is a sewn barn jacket and car jacket with removable faux fur on your wrist. Last year, a cut coat with gold dots, like someone smeared it with a paintbrush, was a surprise sold out. This season’s update is a curly cut with ribbed knit collars and sleeves.
