Eckhaus Latta

Eckhaus Latta was founded in 2011 in Brooklyn by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, both Rhode Island School of Design graduates. The brand emerged from the post-Vetements / post-Hood By Air New York fashion conversation, with a deliberate commitment to gender-fluid casting, mixed-fabric construction, and a critically inclined approach to ready-to-wear that other contemporary New York brands didn't engage with. The vocabulary settled around several signatures: deliberately raw seam treatments, knitwear in unexpected fibre combinations (wool with mohair, viscose with cotton-blend), the recurring use of a slim drape that frames rather than smooths the body, and a casting practice that has consistently featured non-traditional models drawn from queer and trans communities. The brand's runway shows at New York Fashion Week have been among the most-discussed of their decade. Eckhaus Latta operates a single flagship store on Eldridge Street in New York's Lower East Side, plus international wholesale through Dover Street Market, SSENSE, and others. The brand remains independent and is held by Eckhaus and Latta. Few New York brands have so consistently maintained an editorially serious voice while operating at a relatively small commercial scale — and few have so directly used fashion as a vehicle for ongoing conversations about identity, body, and craft.