Homesick Jeans

Wearing new things from L.A. in Spain with Italian slippers.

Earlier this week I attended a cocktail party in celebration of this year’s Loewe Craft Prize. It was held at the fabulous Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, where an exhibition of the competition’s 30 finalists will remain on view through June. What an incredible display of creativity. For me, seeing designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez there, weaving their way through all the stylish Spanish ladies beneath the palms, helped crystallize their appointment to helm the house of Loewe. The New York fashion team of my 20s evolving amidst today’s Spain is very exciting to think about. I can’t wait to see what they do.

At the Loewe Craft Prize exhibition in Madrid. I really loved this woman’s look and this work by Kenyan artist Dickens Otieno titled Panya Routes (2023), made of shredded aluminum cans. On view at the Thyssen through June.

Announcing the prize winner – sculptor Kunimasa Aoki from Japan – was Academy Award-winning director and national treasure Pedro Almodóvar. If yo…