Proenza Schouler designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez achieved a major milestone this week by being named Accessory Designers of the Year at the 2009 CFDA Awards. Today, the Belgian publication A Magazine's ninth issue, which they guest edited, comes out. They're the first Americans to do the job, so not bad.
A different guest editor oversees A Magazine each season, and the Proenza boys aren't shy about pointing out their milestone. Martin Margiela, Yohji Yamamoto and Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy (all of whom show their collections in Paris) previously have edited, but never made an effort to represent their respective countries on the pages.
"When we were asked to do this, it happened to be during the election, when America was having, for lack of a better word, a revolutionary moment," says Hernandez. "It was so cool to be American." And cool is exactly the word we'd use to describe the Old Glory-esque Chloe Sevigny cover, plus features ranging from Bruce Weber to Abraham Lincoln.
