Jack and Lazaro's Loewe 180

In its 180th year, Loewe looks forward. Ahead of the Craft Prize’s Singapore debut, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez speak exclusively to Vogue Singapore on redefining craft for a new era.

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Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez invented a very specific kind of New York cool. I was a young, wide-eyed fashion lover, part of a generation of Singaporeans who grew up on Tumblr and Pinterest, voraciously taking in what we could from their creation of energy. We followed every stitch and hem instinctively, watching them emerge from Parsons School of Design as a duo to know, soon filling the pages of glossies in a sweep of everything fashion could be. What began on the floor of their bedroom quickly grew into something we felt in real time, each sighting a real quench of thirst, a small pulse of our time.

With that came a shift in how I understood desire. Before McCollough and Hernandez, I am not sure I grasped it in its entirety. With them, it became immediate and tangible. All it took was one dress, one bag, one pair of shoes. I remember wanting in, whatever that meant to me, drawn to a world that felt both exclusive and strangely open. That, to me, was the magic of it. Even from afar, it never felt entirely out of reach.