This marked Julian Louie’s debut at New York Fashion Week, but the creative director of Aubero said he wasn’t the least bit nervous. “I actually feel quite calm,” he said. “I’m really on the men’s calendar so the collection was mostly finished in June. So while there’s been show prep, in terms of the actual wrangling of samples, that mostly happened in the early part of the summer.”

It also doesn’t hurt that Louie is a veteran who studied architecture at Cooper Union before starting his fashion career under Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein Collection. He founded Aubero in 2022 and the collection is now sold at Bergdorf Goodman, Maxfield, Barneys New York and other trend-setting boutiques globally. He’s a finalist for this year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award and is also nominated for the C

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