Zero + The Luddite featuring Zero by Maria Cornejo
I've always been a sucker for the romantic side of things, frills, victorian lace, and all the other sort of otherworldly turn-of-the-century things Luddites collect, nostalgic for a life they never lived.
That's why my love of Chilean-born, English-reared Maria Cornejo is so steadfast. What her line, Zero + Maria Cornejo offers is anything but nostalgic. It challenges my aesthetic habits. Cornejo's clothing illusrates a reimagined present with a tangible sense of a time when humans lived in nature. Her concise construction paired with her organic reason, and sensitive palate for materials (like techno-colored horsehair and feathers) conjures images of native Chileans running barefoot in modern silhouettes. more
Zero by Maria Cornejo Fashion Show :: Fall 2008 featuring Zero by Maria Cornejo
Zero by Maria Cornejo's ability to balance artistic intentions, consideration for women's bodies, and wearability, is uncanny. As each of her garments comes down the runway you get the sense that the beautiful Chilean designer imagines herself in all of the clothes, and considers nothing finished unless she would wear it herself. more...
New York Fashion Week Spring 2008 :: Zero by Maria Cornejo featuring Zero by Maria Cornejo
Ms. Cornejo's sublime intellect is the motivating force behind this expressive brand where she has carved a niche for herself showing coherent and smart fashion. For this show, the looks were thoughtful and concise, each one so interrelated that they flowed from one to the next without apparent beginning or end. [Kelley Quan] more...
The Shadowlands featuring Zero by Maria Cornejo
Fashion seems to be a shadow itself, negotiating a culture's former image with its future image, with barely a moment in which the two are reconciled. In 'Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun' Wright wrote, 'The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.' Through examining the fluid nature of our identities, we find that infinite ideas and forward change become possible more...
New York Fashion Week Fall 2007:: Zero Maria Cornejo featuring Zero by Maria Cornejo
My favorite look on the runway was a sleek, satin trench with a draped silk georgette dress with banded bodice. It had that head turning, downtown New York vibe that looked relaxed yet highly stylized. [Kelley Quan] more...
New York Fashion Week Spring 2007 :: Zero by Maria Cornejo featuring Zero by Maria Cornejo
Maria Cornejo's calm demeanor was reflected at the Zero Spring 07 presentation at the Bumble & Bumble space in the meatpacking district. This collection reminded me of why it is good to edit down, abbreviate our wardrobe to achieve maximum effect. Ms. Cornejo shows us that simple really is better and I congratulate her on her recent win of the F.I.T. Award. [Kelley Quan] more...
My Space featuring Zero by Maria Cornejo
If Your Space is a motley bit of html code in a so-called virtual community where anyone that happens by is a friend, visit Our Space, a luxury penthouse apartment on twenty-third and seventh, where fashion and fine living go hand in hand. By all means be online, but live offline. more...