{"id":134770,"date":"2026-02-16T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134770\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:39:11","slug":"new-york-fashion-week-has-found-its-backbone-diotima-by-rachel-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134770\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Fashion Week Has Found Its Backbone: Diotima by Rachel Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: IK Aldama \/ Courtesy of Diotima<\/p>\n

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Photo: IK Aldama \/ Courtesy of Diotima<\/p>\n

In the six years since, she has become New York City\u2019s inarguable designer to watch. In September of last year, as an explicit confirmation of her talent and broad remit, Scott was named the creative director of Proenza Schouler, a label founded by<\/a> Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez (who have relocated to Paris to helm Loewe) that emerged in the early 2000s and quickly became the go-to outfitter for some of New York\u2019s most well-dressed women, including Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny. Scott\u2019s Diotima has come to occupy a similar space today, dressing the new generation of, albeit more diverse, fashion glitterati. She showed her first collection for Proenza Schouler on Wednesday, a terrific opening effort.<\/p>\n

Much of Scott\u2019s work at Diotima revolves around decolonization, be that by her centering of her home country of Jamaica or by considering elegance from a non-white, non-Eurocentric point of view, oftentimes with an emphasis on craft. This season, Scott partnered with the family and estate of the late Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam, whose work is currently the subject of its first US retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.<\/p>\n

A Cuban artist of African and Chinese descent, Lam would often refer to his art as an \u201cact of decolonization.\u201d His work expanded the context of modernist art into the realm of Black diasporic culture by way of transporting landscapes and living characters. He studied in Spain and developed his practice under a war-torn Europe, gaining the support of the likes of Pablo Picasso and Joan Mir\u00f3. During the Spanish Civil War, he worked with the Republicans to create posters and propaganda, and later illustrated Andr\u00e9 Breton\u2019s famous surrealist poem Fata Morgana.<\/p>\n

Upon his return to Cuba in 1941, he became reacquainted with Afro-Cuban culture. His work developed in style as he merged European surrealism and cubism with Caribbean motifs. Above all, it continued to be political in spirit but this time with a singular focus, to reconnect Cuba with its African heritage. This is a tradition that Scott seeks to uphold by remarking on her own individual cultural lineage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: IK Aldama \/ Courtesy of Diotima Photo: IK Aldama \/ Courtesy of Diotima In the six years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30479,57292,1242,30481,9,6231,11,10,10903,57291],"class_list":{"0":"post-134770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-ashley-olsen","9":"tag-chloe-sevigny","10":"tag-fashion","11":"tag-mary-kate-olsen","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-fashion-week","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-nyfw","17":"tag-proenza-schouler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}