Nicole Phelps

At Parsons?

This is something new I'm learning about you.

Can you go into more detail about the workshops in Madrid?

You know, you've been at Loewe now for going on a year.

What have you observed there?

Is there, you know, anything that really stands out to you about the kind of handwork they're doing?

Okay, we're going to take a quick break.

Another thing that's new for you is menswear.

So what has that been like, sort of deciding what your menswear is going to look like?

Well, I was very impressed that it's sort of interchangeability, right?

There was a lot of overlap between the men's and the women's shapes.

You're not going to throw in a few women?

Do you feel that you're making clothes for yourselves?

Like, are you trying to make a Loewe wardrobe for Jack and Lazarus?

Well, speaking of school, all the way back in 2005, not long after you graduated, you told New York Magazine, we always fight a lot before the show.

I want to think about the big picture, fashion in the big picture now.

In September, last September, when you debuted, we made a lot of hay about, you know, it's the big reshuffle.

You were among a group of like 12 or 15, you know, houses that changed over.

Yeah, so I wanted to ask you, two seasons in, what do you see when you look around?

You know, obviously you're in the whirlwind too, so you have a different perspective.