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The way we dressed every morning is as personal as possible. There are rehearsals of outfits, vintage treasure hunters and even emotional convenients. But while everyone likes a good fashion trend, here to Instyle, We are also interested in deeper things: the way jewelry makes us feel, the way a beloved coat can trigger joy on a cold day, the way a pair of shoes can bring together a whole look. How I dress Unpacking fashion routines, rituals and Go -Tos – from manufacturers of fashion tastes we love.
You do not guess by watching the designer Sally Lapointe that she has one of the most colorful and dynamic brands of the New York Fashion Week calendar. Season after season, she organizes a chromatically ordered parade for her eponymous label that contrasts with the designer’s favorite uniform. But, 15 years later, Lapointe made peace with it.
“My clothes are my art; my clothes are my painting,” she said a few days before her show by New York Fashion Week Fall / Winter 2025, which marks the brand’s birthday.
With the kind permission of Sally Lapointe
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Lapointe formed as a beautiful artist in her childhood and then developed a talent for fashion. Her first show at New York Fashion Week in September 2010 went so well that Lady Gaga launched a glance a few hours after she was on the track. “It was then that she had just released and this kind of trigger,” recalls Lapointe. Since then, the celebrity parade that has worn Lapointe has been located from Adele and Jennifer Lopez to Beyoncé and Doja Cat. Last season, instead of a fashion show, Lapointe published a lookbook with its spring 2025 collection, modeled by none other than Oprah Winfrey.
What attracts a group of women so vast and varied to Lapointe is the brand’s ability to make a declaration and make it appear effortlessly. Wearing your cut dresses to bias or transparent bodysuits may seem a risky affair, but its approach to design transforms a body -to -swallowing body into a garment that looks more like a dressed pajamas. It is a skill that she attributes to the simple fact that she is a woman who makes clothes for other women. “I have an advantage because I am a woman and I know what it is feel Likes to be a woman, “she said.” I understand what is to dress the curves and what it does in the locker room, and therefore a huge part for me is the ease of clothes. “”
Ruven Afanador
Although Lapointe can dress in all black, do not confuse a uniform for lack of style. Her long black hair and sleeve bodysuits who make him a New York woman in the city center par excellence (to say nothing that she works and lives there). And she can flex a look – a lapoiste, of course – when she owes: “I always keep some of the noisy pieces if necessary.”
On the eve of the 15th anniversary of her business, Lapointe spoke with Instruction About its design perspective, its uniform dressing and the next step for its label.
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The first days of the lapointe
I launched the business with my best friend – and now my trading partner. I always knew that I had something to say, and she just had an incredible way to take this and bring it to reality. All my brand has just been since the start of empowerment and to be authentic for yourself and believe in the power of you. Even if the brand has evolved over the years, it was really the original mission that we still have today.
On its celebrities customers
It is really the state of mind of the wearer and what she feels. And that’s how I was able to get this crazy range between politicians to musicians, from the youngest to more mature. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you are. It was our first show 15 years ago – I will never forget it, waking up the next morning and (someone said) “Gaga pulls the dress from your track”, and she was the first (celebrity ). And every celebrity that came to us, I can say that they come because they want to wear it. It is not as if we contrades these people or anything, and again that goes back to the mission of simply focusing on the product.
On his personal aesthetic
I think back to my foundation. I was formed in a classic way as a good artist with oil painting at the age of 6 or 7 years. My growing hero was Claude Monet. I wear all black because my clothes (I understand) are my art, my clothes are my painting, my clothes are my expression. I am Claude Monet in his hat and his costume that he wore every day.
My body – I have literally, like 10 of them. And my matt pancake pants. Again, because I just need to be in a day -to -day uniform. But then I have shocking out -of -competition pieces. I keep all our beautiful furs and our declaration coats. I will go out in a lively green dress at an event, and it’s like “Oh my God”, but every day are a little simple or more basic pieces.
On the DNA of New York of Lapointe
It’s funny; Someone asked the other day if I wanted to show Paris. The brand is so emblematic and synonymous with this energy from downtown New York, and we just have that. I live a few houses in my studio. We have been here for so long, and he has just infiltrated the brand. I filming just outside our studio. We also manufacture around 80 or 90% in New York, which is rare.
On the bride at La Lapointe
We started to notice that people wore our cream (songs) for the bride. It was really natural, and it really succeeded. I think it is the idea of being outside the traditional bride, what you should “do” or “what your mother-in-law or your mother wants you to do”. I think it goes very well with the energy of our brand.
Ruven Afanador
Over the next 15 years
We made such an accent on the product as a collection of ready-to-wear. I would love, now that it is in stone, start to develop. I want to think about what seems just to our brand and what it is exactly, I am not yet sure. But expand and become a more global familiar name. And extend to other products that could excite the client in a different way.
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