After working in public relations for twenty years serving to to assist different manufacturers, Sarah Bonello is launching her personal.
Obtainable for preorder on Thursday, The Park is a line of base layers designed to enrich clothes by different designers.
Suppose skirted leggings, a tube gown, attractive catsuit, bodysuit, slim-fit T-shirt, bralette and outerwear underwear in black, navy or camel, made to layer below a Chanel sweater or Saint Laurent jacket.
It’s a full-circle second of types for Bonello, who moved from New York to Los Angeles throughout the pandemic. Earlier than working in journalism and PR, she attended FIT in New York, however realized that being a designer wasn’t her forte. “However seeing the inventive work of Dries [Van Noten] or Karl [Lagerfeld], who I’ve been obsessive about perpetually, I noticed my woman, The Park woman, desires to reside on the arm of the designer,” she stated.
“Somebody of their 20s can love this as a lot as somebody of their 60s or 70s. I do know as a 20-year-old working at Dan Klores, working round, I’d have taken this gown and worn it six other ways and gone out at night time and perhaps gone to work the subsequent morning in it. And now I’m 50, and I’m nonetheless sporting it,” she stated of The Park’s black long-sleeve Elizabeth gown.
The Park
Bonello’s influences for the gathering embody the Nineteen Eighties New York sophisticate uniform of all-black stretchy clothes, as seen at Limelight and different golf equipment within the day, and embodied by trend icon Norma Kamali.
However her aha second really got here throughout COVID-19 when she discovered an outdated pair of fold-over skirted leggings she used to like, slipped them on and ended up sporting them just about every day. They had been threadbare, so she requested a tailor if he might discover a comparable materials and make a duplicate. “The fantastic thing about them being that it didn’t matter how a lot I ate, walked or lounged as they stretched comfortably with me and my physique,” she stated.
Even after lockdown, she didn’t put them away. In truth, she wore them to Paris Vogue Week, pairing them with a Chanel sweater. “I acquired stopped first on the aircraft, then within the airport, then on the resort,” she stated. “After that I needed to actually attempt to create one thing that I cherished pondering perhaps others will love them too.” The end result was the Pleasure skirted legging, The Park’s hero fashion.
The Park’s Pleasure skirted legging
She’s producing the gathering in L.A. With a watch towards the least potential environmental affect, items are product of micro Tencel and recycled elastane, which has a considerable weight and supplies some assist, and all have a tiny bow emblem. “I’m a bow woman,” Bonello stated of the branding system. Costs vary from $210 to $500 and the road is being bought at theparkfashion.com, Elyse Walker and Swap shops.
Preorders are being taken now, with deliveries in September of the Pleasure skirted legging, the Lia child T-shirt, the Elizabeth long-sleeve midi gown and the Donna bodysuit. Different kinds will ship in October and for vacation, together with the Liat mock neck bodysuit (named after celeb stylist Liat Baruch), a tube gown and wide-leg pant.
“I actually went into this as a result of me and my buddies who’re all busy…you would have a closet full of garments, whether or not they’re from H&M or Chanel, and never know what to put on.…Typically I’ll get up and need to put on that colourful blazer I acquired from Libertine, however I don’t know what to put on with, proper? I needed to create one thing that will reply that query.”
