Ella Emhoff makes surprise runway debut at New York Fashion Week
Ella Emhoff has made her official runway debut for American label Proenza Schouler at New York Fashion Week.
The
stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris first caught the public's
attention at President Joe Biden's inauguration, when her embellished Miu Miu coat went viral and made her the event's sartorial breakout star.
Shortly after the ceremony, Emhoff was signed to IMG Models. The agency's formidable directory includes supermodels Karlie Kloss and Gisele Bündchen as well as Bella and Gigi Hadid.
Like
many other brands, Proenza Schouler is presenting its Fall-Winter 2021
womenswear collection digitally this year due to ongoing health and
safety concerns due to the pandemic.
Ella Emhoff in Proenza Schouler Credit: Daniel Shea/Proenza Schouler
Their
campaign video sees the concrete perimeter of the Parrish Art Museum in
New York turn into a makeshift runway. According to the show notes,
the range aims to "comfort, inspire, and empower the modern-day woman."
The
collection blends sharp, structured tailoring with cocooning knitwear
and an array of playful statement features from long fringed sleeves and
soft padded slippers to leather socks under structured stilettos.
In
a recorded interview for NYFW at Spring Studios in London, Emhoff
admitted to having first-show jitters. "I definitely lost a little sleep
the night before," she said in conversation with Proenza Schouler
designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. "I mean I'm walking for
the first time, I'm in a professional environment for the first time...
It was a very epic first experience with the fashion world."
Proenza Schouler
Plans
for creating a brand of her own seemed to be on the horizon, too. "For a
really long time when i was younger I wanted to be a designer," she
said. "Then I took it a little more seriously, I started taking courses
at Central Saint Martins over two summers...It definitely exposed me to
the intensity of design school."
Emhoff
has been knitting for thirteen years and envisions her designs as
unisex. "I want to see guys, girls, people, everyone wearing striped
colorful pants or my dresses," she said. "I think that'd be great."
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