Designer Graham Tyler looks back to look forward.
There are lots of misconceptions around Fashion Week, the most prevalent being that it’s all glamour and paparazzi flash. Not true. It’s a wondrous journey of discovery—taken at a frantic pace. Oases of calm in this storm of activity are rare and cherished. One such respite was provided during New York Fashion Week by
, who mounted his show like an exhibition in a Chelsea gallery, where he paired his artwork with his garments. This effectively built on his inspirations: the American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book,Photo: Kevin Czopek / BFA.com / Courtesy of CCPR Tyler, 26, is a would-be academic and self-described “maker” who landed on fashion as his vehicle of expression after a creative journey that began in high school when he worked for a lamp maker. Building upon his interest in metalwork, he started to study painting and sculpture in Cleveland, but left school to apprentice with a milliner there.
Though the past has a lot of pull on Tyler, he’s not mired in it; it’s unexpected combinations that interest him. “I live in a city that’s a melting pot of things and cultures and time periods, and I think that my work is that in many ways,” he says. “To me it’s very, very American. It feels American today.” It also speaks to a new generation of consumers who are searching for meaning as well as style.
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