Maria Cornejo Goes Green
—Nicole Phelps
It’s a cross-country season for Maria Cornejo. Fresh off the tenth commemoration celebration for Ikram Goldman’s Ikram boutique in Chicago this weekend, the designer namely in Los Angeles, where she’s act some celebrating of her own. Tonight, she’ll host a banquet for Paula Hayes, whose cup terraria, ceramic birdhouses, and silicone planters she’s showcasing for the afterward six weeks in her Melrose Avenue boutique. Hayes’ masterpiece will be versed to anybody who’s visited MoMA since last November. Her installation, Nocturne of the Limax Maximus, was on outlook in the museum’s hall until mid-April, and the vivid green factories encased among their handblown cup sculptures catered a striking counterpoint to New York’s long, dreary winter. “Paula is an talent who goes with alphabetical fashions and forms in unexpected materials,” Cornejo told Style.com. (She’s too a longtime client; Hayes wears Cornejo’s designs nearly exclusively.) “I love the path that her terraria are in a moment very futuristic-looking, yet still encompass the normal globe.” (One of said terraria is upon.) The best portion of the arrangement? Says Cornejo: “Our ficus tree will get a new home in a silicone planter.”
No rest as the green-thumbed, though. Next week, Cornejo’s back in New York, where aboard Thursday, she’ll host already variant event—her first ever for her fledgling menswear accumulation. (She shows a few key men’s looks aboard the women’s runway.) At Project No. 8 Men’s on the Lower East Side, Cornejo ambition be on hand apt neatness guys, selling the limited-edition tees she designed with husband Mark Borthwick apt benefit Doctors Without Borders, and maybe most tantalizing of entire, offering the collaborative Common Projects x Maria Cornejo sneakers (below) that even her own stores don’t carry.
Maria Cornejo will be at Project No. 8 Men’s (38 Orchard St., NYC) from 6-8 afternoon on Thursday, May 19; to RSVP, email rsvp@projectno8.com.
Photos: Courtesy of Zero + Maria Cornejo / Courtesy of Project No. 8