Problem solver is a label designer Rachel Comey proudly wears.

“We really think about what our woman is going through, and really pay a lot of attention to the life experiences of our customers,” she said at a preview of the collection. “We have so much feedback from our store, that goes down to the fiber, like what kind of weight of cotton and the performance of the fabrics.”

There’s an intimacy to what she creates, down to her reason to come to the runway. Her show notes explained she just wanted to “hang out” with friends and muses, inviting them to an intimate runway in a quant New York alley behind her now-expanded showroom in NoHo. The spring collection is about contradictions in color combo and fabrications. Think wool with technical fabrics; pink tissue-thin jersey, stacked in

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