Calvin Luo

Calvin Luo (羅靖) was founded in 2014 in New York by Chinese-American designer Calvin Luo after his Parsons School of Design graduation. The brand has been one of the defining post-2014 NYC-anchored Chinese-American contemporary-luxury-womenswear brands, with the deliberately-architectural feminine silhouette and the brand's New-York-fashion-week-positioning anchoring the broader cultural position. The Calvin Luo vocabulary settled around several recurring elements: deliberately-architectural single-breasted blazers with sharp-shouldered construction, hand-printed silk and chiffon dresses with deliberately-feminine asymmetric construction, deconstructed jersey separates with deliberately-body-conscious cut-out detailing, the brand's iconic Calvin Luo Bow Pump footwear programme, and a colour palette anchored to washed-black, oxblood, ecru, soft-pink, washed-charcoal, plus the brand's recurring use of saturated red, royal-blue, and butter-yellow contemporary-luxury accent combinations. The brand has presented at New York Fashion Week each season since 2015. The brand is independent and held by Luo. Calvin Luo operates with no permanent retail of its own, distributing through SSENSE, MATCHES, Net-a-Porter, Lane Crawford, Boontheshop, the Webster, the major US-and-Asian luxury department stores, and a curated set of contemporary-luxury-womenswear specialty retailers globally. The brand has been one of the more quietly successful post-2014 Chinese-American NYC-anchored contemporary-luxury-womenswear brands.