5 Questions with Rising Designer Patrick Cupid
Patrick Cupid is an rising, self-made modern designer style model that performs the formality of class in opposition to the benefit of elevated sportswear, enveloping a really cosmopolitan type.
The Patrick Cupid model launched in 2017, and the primary assortment, “All in Jest,” began a dialog round unbiased type with out social restrictions in Fall 2019. The model tells a narrative of independence and evolving tradition by way of clothes seamlessly translating from skilled to social. Every assortment includes a customized print designed by Patrick Cupid himself, emphasizing the seasons’ idea’s philosophy.Patrick obtained formal coaching at The Style Institute of Know-how, Parsons Faculty of Design, and Politecnico Milano. We sat down with Patrick at his midtown Manhattan atelier, and chatted all issues style.
Pursuitist: How lengthy have you ever been in enterprise? How did you get entangled in style?
Patrick Cupid: I’ve labored in style since I used to be 17. The model formally since 2019 once I launched the primary assortment below Patrick Cupid. We launched right here in New York within the garment district, and I had a mentor that stated “you must come to Paris. You might want to do Paris Style Week”. I did, and it labored out and began the trajectory.
It’s all I ever actually knew what to do. After I was slightly child, I’d draw. It was by no means individuals, it was by no means animals, it was at all times clothes. I’d learn a guide, I’d watch a film, I like previous movies, cartoons, I learn like crazy- fairy tales, bible stories- something in regards to the world it may inform me. After I could be completed, I’d seize a pen, pencil, something I may discover, and I’d simply begin to sketch. It was at all times some type of clothes. Oh, that is what a the princess was carrying. Then I found I may sew. I don’t actually know why or how, it simply made sense to me. After I was round 13, we obtained cable and Bravo used to have a present referred to as Style File. They did a complete profile on Karl Lagerfeld and it was simply this epiphany of wait, he attracts. He sews. He does his factor, and it was like, okay, that is what I’m purported to do, and it form of simply caught from there.
Pursuitist: Your present assortment is impressed by the 1960’s. What was the inspiration?
Patrick Cupid: The spring/summer time assortment “Diurnal” actually took place after wanting what is going on now, and likewise this transition in myself. I began to consider issues coming to gentle and taking place extra broadly. Politically, persons are are being extra outspoken. Individuals are saying issues now that haven’t been stated, however there’s fact to historical past repeats itself. After I began to consider that, I kind of checked out style, checked out what’s occurring, and within the early 60’s their was simply this level that style simply advanced actually rapidly. New types, like virtually weekly.
In 1960, it simply exploded. I was form of puzzled by it, and was like okay, what had occurred. Why did this go on? And it was ladies. Girls occurred. They got here out, they had been talking out, they had been writing, they had been in workplace, they had been on tv, they had been in politics, they had been getting levels and training, not that this wasn’t taking place earlier than, however the world didn’t make room for it. Now that we had been listening to from ladies as people, you might now not put all of them in the identical uniform. They wanted garments, and style responded. Particularly from the feminine designers. Feminists additionally responded, and so they had been carrying pants. The skirts obtained very, very brief. The concepts of being a converservative or sexual being had been shaken up. It required a brand new sense of fashion, it required a brand new sense of gown. Clothes needed to operate, and never simply fairly.
The true ethos behind the model itself is the autonomous individual. Who’s herself, expresses herself, is into the model, as a result of it’s who she is. She’s not dressing to impress anyone, be appreciated, or achieve anybody’s approval. It has nothing to do with that in any respect.
Pursuitist: What are a few of your favourite items from the present assortment?
Patrick Cupid: There’s undoubtedly at all times the extensive leg pants. The material (Italian double wool crepe), the load, the drape is totally lovely. They work on anybody. The peak doesn’t matter- I actually needed to ensure I had issues that anybody may put on and put them on and really feel wonderful. Figuring out the proper match was an enormous deal for me, and that is most likely one of many favorites.
The others could be the shirts and the blouses. The flower print takes on a really painterly side to them. I don’t do floral simply to do floral, I attempt to do one thing slightly different- one thing to consider once they have a look at it. It additionally provides the clothes a novel enchantment as a result of when doing so. I additionally consider in accountable design and have as little going to waste as potential. Plenty of silk, cotton.
How do you see your model evolving over the following few years and what are your targets as a dressmaker?
Patrick Cupid: Rising. I’d finally like to be in my very own retail house, as a result of I feel in that method, I may actually give individuals a entrance row seat to the world of Patrick Cupid and what that’s, how I design and why.The artwork inspiration for the prints, as a result of I used to be a contract curator for some time working with artists each right here and within the UK and showcasing their work. Just like the love for colour. Having them perceive that their is extra to the clothes.
Pursuitist: In case you weren’t a dressmaker, what would you be doing, and what’s luxurious to you?
Patrick Cupid: I’d be a lawyer. No query. It matches who I’m and ties into the model as properly, as a result of even with the message of autonomy, their is a way of social justice. With the way in which the world is, I’d need to make a distinction ultimately, form or kind, and I feel being a lawyer is the way in which to do this.
Luxurious to me is a specialness. It’s when one thing is actually particular and never simply the price of the factor. It’s the standard, it’s the make. that it’s had a life and provides extra to the story, and something luxurious has to have that. It’s not nearly fairly issues, it has that power, that feeling and it’s very well completed.
