Proenza Schouler | Pre Spring 2022 Collection
Celebrating the joy and the pleasure of dressing up again, the Proenza Schouler Pre-Spring
2022 Collection imagines what an intelligent and adult wardrobe could look like for a life post-pandemic
as many are starting to slowly reemerge into a world that is greatly changed. The
sensual and tactile pleasures of a luxury wardrobe are highlighted and celebrated as a
reprieve to the sartorial casualization of the past year while retaining much of the
effortlessness and ease we have come to know and love. Distinctive proportion play exists
throughout, with playfully feminine silhouettes grounded by notes of a traditionally masculine
bent to produce an attitude that feels nuanced and thoroughly of the moment. Knits continue to
play a starring role, this time sculpted into soft, feminine structures that lightly collapse when
worn and paired with glossy leather walking shorts and stiff rubber rain-boots that serve as a
balancing counterpoint. Duality remains a strong brand code, found in technical fabrics that
are seamed by hand with crotchet, or through artisanal lace inlaid into slick and cool-handed
matte viscose satins. Suiting is reintroduced with bonded leather lapels or rendered in soft
pastel-colored leather and paired back to matching shorts in an attempt to reconcile a moment
of simultaneously dressing up and down. Warm tones of marigold, apricot, salmon, and yellow
are balanced by cooler sky blues and bright cobalts. Neutrals continue to be important and
grounding. The collection exists in this most liminal of times where one foot remains in the
comforts of the bubble we knew while the other foot stands firmly in the unknown moment we
are now just beginning to enter.
Accessories reflect the sensibilities of the ready-to-wear and are firmly rooted in codes of
practicality and ease. Shoes, while low to the ground and comfortable, are designed with the
city streets in mind. The new rubber-soled Storm Boots are shown in two silhouettes: a stiff,
knee-length version, and a straightforward slip-on clog. Square toed shearling sandals with
padded nappa insoles round out the offer. The Dia Day Bag is introduced as a new classic and
rendered in smooth and embossed calf skin. The Tobo family expands with the introduction of
a north/south silhouette rendered in intarsia leather and spotted shearling.
The collection, although officially titled “Pre-Spring”, is unequivocally one intended for colder
weather months as it begins to deliver in October and is therefore designed with a winter
perspective in mind. The days of delivering light clothes in the middle of winter and heavy
clothes at the height of summer are behind us as the brand pivots to delivering seasonally
appropriate clothes in real time, a prescient move and a radical shift that underscores how the
Proenza Schouler woman consumes fashion, the ultimate point of reference for this and any
Proenza Schouler collection.
