Fashion people do love to gossip, and many assumed that Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez would bring the style of Proenza Schouler, their New York label, to Loewe. Furthermore, it wouldn’t be as conceptual and bold as the brand was under Jonathan Anderson, especially in his late surrealistic phase.

It was great, then, to see Hernandez and McCollough disprove those people in their debut on Friday. Not only did the designers bring a sense of American sportswear to Loewe—a t-shirt and a pair of jeans, a crisp blouse—they also smoothed away some of the hard edges of Anderson’s Loewe, in fact they seemed to challenge the notion of how conceptual fashion needs to be.

Isn’t it much harder, and in a way more sincere, to design clothes that are wearable and also novel? To me, McCollough and H

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