Kris and Laura met at Parsons in their early twenties, following Laura’s early career as a stylist, where she developed a natural understanding of what women want, what they feel and what they want to wear, and Kris’ background as a tailor. Fate would bring them into the same couture class where they started to work on projects together and quickly discovered a mutual love for the fabric they work with as well as a complementary skill set across craftsmanship and design. They launched Brock Collection in 2013, married in 2014, and in 2016 were named winners of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. Their first collection in 2014 was inspired by a vintage red, floral fabric they discovered in a mill archive. From here, they have designed collections focused around this inspiration from fabrics, be it delving into archives across France and Italy, to spending a large portion of the development of their designs around the creation of the material they wish to use. Referring to one another as the ying to the other’s yang, they still approach every collection with the same ideas and regularly surprise one another with similar designs already in mind before even opening the conversation about what lies ahead.
IMAGE: LAURA & KRIS, COURTESY OF BROCK COLLECTION
Such a beautiful attitude to their clothes and the ‘she’ they refer to when discussing the woman who will wear their clothes is incredibly inspirational. It also doesn’t go unnoticed that Kris and Laura’s designs really are sensational. Sensationally romantic.
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