Launched in 2016 Vaquera is modern punk, it is fashion as fan fiction, it is both ends of the lasso – carefree D.I.Y passion and a deep reverence and engagement with fashion as well as social issues. Vaquera started in 2013 as fashion fan fiction, a way for founder Patric DiCaprio to explore his obsession with clothing. Since 2016, with the addition of Bryn Taubensee and now in partnership with Dover Street Market, that fantasy has become much more real. Vaquera means cowgirl in Spanish, after a nickname Patric was given while washing dishes. The name now represents a New York now Paris based collective making garments for the characters of their city, both actual and imagined, and their very real customers across the world.

Our first delivery of their FW26 collection is available now at distal phalanx. FW26 show notes:

Don’t be married to a fixed vision of your future. Vaquera has always celebrated fashion’s transformative power, FW26 marks our own transformation.

Hold on tightly, let go lightly.

The collection confronts the tension between perfection and chaos. Can you be unhinged and complete at once? Its cast of characters, distorted drab mods, twisted ladies who lunch, abstracted leather daddies all seem to suggest that the most covetable clothes for your future are those that mirror our fractured present.

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